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NUMBER 40
VOLUME XXIV. MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 6 , 1904.
We have seen, we have heard of, the thousands
that glitter,
Roused safe and secure in the Capitol fair:
If no one had suffered, if no one had labored,
Amid the rough rocks it were still waiting there.
But more precious by far than the wealth of
the nations,
In the sight of the Lord, is the worth of one
soul:
Be glad if he calls you to dig out the jewels;
They shall shine in his glory while ages shall
roll.
AMONG the graces and characteristics
that go to make up a beautiful Christian
life is one called sincerity. The life is not
perfect and complete nor all it should be
where this grace is wanting. God is pure
and he will judge us by his own standard of
purity. Unless we are sincere in all our acts
of life we come below the true standard
of purity. Ta be sincere is to be free from
guile, false pretense, or hypocrisy. A sin-cere
life is one that is all that it pretends
to be. If you make the least attempt to
appear to be something more than you
really are, you are not sincere, neither are
you free from guile. This characteristic
was very beautiful in the life of Christ.
He made no attempt ' to appear to be more
than he was. He was sincere. He was free
from guile. We as Christians take upon
us the character of Christ. Since this is
true we do not look for guilelessness in the
life of Jesus only. It was said of Nathan-eel,
by the Savior, that in him there was
nu guile. His life was pure. Sincerity
marked his every act and thought. He
was sincere in prayer, and it is only the
sincere prayer that avails with God.
Sincere love is love not in word or tongue
only, but in deed and in truth. You pro-fess
to love God. If you love him in deed
and in truth, sincerity will characterize
yl ur every act in his service. Your con-duct
will prove the sincerity of your love.
To love God is to love all that he loves and
to hate all that he hates. It is to be in-terested
in everything in which he is in-terested.
God is deeply concerned about the
salvation of souls. Believest thou this?
TI you love God you also are concerned
about the Salvation of souls. Your prayers
for the salvation of the lost will not be dead
and formal, but there will be earnest plead-ing;
there will be deep, agonizing prayer
to God. You will feel in your soul like
saying, " My God, I can not let you go ex-cept
you save some soul." If you are sin-cere
in your love toward God your labors
for him will not be performed from the
mere standpoint of duty, but you will be
delighted in all you do.
Now I want to ask the professed Chris-tian
reader to look closely as to the nature
of your feelings when called upon to per-form
certain duties. You need not be in
a hurry, but take plenty of time and look
the matter over carefully. Now concerning
the duty of giving. If your love toward
God and man is sincere you will give of
your means most cheerfully. If it goes
a little hard for you to give your love is
not sincere. Your love is mixed somewhat
with guile. If there is no alloy in your
love you give all you can and labor zeal-ously
that you might have to give and
that with perfect delight. This is true
and you need not say it is not true, neith-er
can you treat it indifferently.
If you are going out to- Morrow to cut
cord- wood for your own personal gain, you
will arise early in the morning and get to
your work early and work with an energy
because you are getting large wages per
cord. On the next day you are to donate
a day's wood cutting to a poor widow. You
do not arise near so early as you did the
day before, and you go about your chores
more slowly and sit at the breakfast table
and talk awhile with the family, then take
up your ax carelessly and slowly saunter
across the field. If that is the way it is
with you, your love toward God is far from
being sincere. There is a strong, coarse
thread of self- love running through the
cloth, and when you are called upon to
prove the sincerity of your love those
threads of self- love will shrink and pull
the whole cloth out of shape. 0 beloved,
prove the sincerity of your love by taking
as much interest in doing for others as you
do for yourself. " Let love be without dis-simulation."
Sometimes it seems to you that you can
hardly bear up any longer under the
trials you have and long for more grace.
You feel your need of more grace. Would
you like to have lived in the days of the
apostle Paul and had him to pray for you?
Here is an invocation given by this apos-tle,
" Grace be with all them that love our
Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity." Eph.
6: 24. This prayer of the apostle is ring-ing
in the ears of God to this day in your
behalf if your love is sincere. But if
your love is not sincere this is the prayer
he has offered for you, " If any man love
not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be
Anathema [ accursed]." 1 Cor. 6: 22. One
of these prayers is being answered in your
behalf to- day, and may Gbd help you to
fully understand these things.
Your conduct in life is to be in such sin-cerity
as God is in all his work. When
we look at the worlds above us and at
our own world and nature round about
we can not fail to note the sincerity of
God in his works. When we stop to con-sider
the work of God for our pleasure and
good we are amazed at the sincerity of his
love toward us. He has caused so many
varieties of things to grow to meet the de-sires
of man's taste and the demands of
his system. For his delight and benefit
he has made the many different colors.
Man determines the nature and quality of
many a thing by its color. You need sleep,
so God has prepared you a. night in which
God has given it. You need water; God
has given this also, and just in the right
chemical proportion to meet the demands
of your system. You need air to breathe ;
God has provided this in his love and wis-dom.
If the air contained more oxygen
and less nitrogen we could not live in it,
and if it contained less oxygen and more
nitrogen we could not live in it. But it
is just rightly proportioned to meet our
needs. This is wonderful. So in every-thing
God has made, if we stop to con-sider
how wonderfully adapted is all na-ture
to the needs of man, we can not fail
to note the sincerity of God in all his
works.
Now we in all our work should be just
as sincere as God was in his. All - we do
should be done purely for a benefit to some
one and to God's glory. I hope you will
fully comprehend this. When we are thus
sincere we rejoice because our conscience
is clear. The apostle said, " Our rejoicing
ig this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not
with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of
God, we have had our conduct in the
world." 2 Cor. 1: 12. Let all your con-duct
be in godly sincerity, and you will
have cause for rejoicing. C. E. 0.
to have our lives so controlled by his
words and precepts that they are
actually governed by his will or words?
In other words, the Word is to our souls
the life- giving portion. It is the life or sap
that causes the branch to live or grow.
The more the sap flows through the
branch from the vine, the more abundant
and beautiful will be the fruit, or, if the
sap ceases to flow the branch will die and
the husbandman will cut it off to the
good of the tree. This is why many die.
They fail to eat. Dear one, watch your
spiritual appetite.
Again ( 1 Cor. 11 : 27- 30), " Wherefore
whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink
this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be
guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
But let a man so examine himself and so
let him eat of that bread, and drink of that
cup. For he that eateth and drinketh un-worthily,
eateth and drinketh damnation to
himself, not discerning the Lord's body."
In the Lord's body ( church) they eat
the food and drink the blood worthily.
Then why is it there are so many weakly
and sickly among us, and so many sleep ?
It is because they have not partaken of
the cup (" the new testament in my blood")
worthily. They have not examined themsel-ves
by the Word, therefore are not able to
discern the Lord's body or to be a part of it.
They become weak and sickly and fall a-sleep
for lack of honest searching of the
Scriptures.
I hold it our duty and privilege while
undergoing severe trials and fiery fur-naces
to maintain calm and peaceful hearts
and countenances. I do not believe Daniel
ill the lion's den or the Hebrew children
it, the furnace were writhing and crying
and groaning. But if a test or trial threat-ens,
sadness or indifference or distress of
any kind, the question is, " Where is my
strength, my endurance— my life? Ah, yes;
I need more food. My soul is not strong
enough. Where is Jesus ( the Word) 1" Do
not think a hurried prayer will suffice.
God does not want a complaint or murmur-ing
although it comes in prayer form. It
is soul- food you need, and God has already
supplied it.
If you have failed to use it and are
caught fainting in the time of trial, what
do you expect God to do ? only thing
is to go and eat.
Often our souls are not fat because we
do or have done all the talking ourselves,
and not listened enough to Jesus ( Word).
He wants us to commune with him and
heed him, and get lonesome when we do
not hear him. When we , neglect his Word,
we neglect him. When we slight his Word,
we slight him. In fact, it is for a lack of the
love of truth that many are allowed to be-lieve
a lie and be damned. " My word shall
not pass away." Mat. 24: 3. " The words
that I speak are life." John 6: 63.
THE WORD.
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BY MABEL COX PORTER.
" AND his name is called The Word
God." Rev. 19: 13. When we read
Genesis, first chapter, and see the creations
caused simply by the Word or utterance
of God, then we can slightly comprehend
what it means when John said, " And the
Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us." Oh, the power in the Word— and
the Word is so free. Why are we not
strong in his power? It is because we do
not " eat that which is good" and let
our souls delight themselves in fatness.
Isa. 55: 2. Why is it that so many who are
professing to love Jesus are so dead and
fcrmal? It is because they profess a lie.
They do not even blow Jesus, let alone
loving him. Professors, " why call ye me,
Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
say?" Luke 6: 45, 46. Jesus does not
want us to love his person or worship
his flesh and morals, but he wants us to
love ( obey) and honor his commands,
precepts, promises, and so on. If we
profess to love Jesus and do not love God's
truth we are deceived, for it would be
an impossibility.
Reader, do you love Jesus? Do you love
to search the Scriptures and meditate on
them and hold communion with him ' 1 Do
we love to humble ourselves in order to
accept his teachings? Dear ones, " eat
ye that which is good, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness." What are you
eating? Are you hungry for the " Morning
News" or for " Russell's ideas on the Mil-lennium"
or somebody else's ideas, or are
you really hungry to know God's ideas?
Let your soul have its regular meals. Let it
have good appetizers. Be sure and give
your soul its breakfast before you feed
your mind on the worldly or temporal
things.
When my husband is absent from me I
always am more anxious to get his letters
than any other. It is because I love him.
Do you love Jesus ( the Word)? If Jesus
is the Word ( practically speaking), what
does he mean when he says, " Abide in me
and I in you"? Then he says ( John
15: 4), " As the branch can not bear fruit
of itself except it abide in the vine ; no
more can ye, except ye abide in me."
to sleep. You need light in which to labor; What is it to abide in Jesus? Is it not
THE GOLD DIGGERS.
BY ANNIE M. ABBY.
Where the valley lies trustfully up to the foothills,
And the snow- covered mountains look on grim
and cold,
The river came rushing from wild, rocky canyons,
And brought as its treasure deposits of gold.
Wealth hidden from sight mid the rough rocks
and gravel,
Waited age after age for the miners to come;
For there in the dark it could brighten no palace,
Nor bestow on the beggar the comforts of home.
They came, tho', at last, over deserts and moun-tains;
• They suffered with hunger, with thirst, heat,
and cold,
And stealthily lurked the dark foe at the foun-tains:
They risked all to go to the fields of gold.
Did they find it was easy to gather the precious/
Were there no discouragementsl nought to re-tard/
They toiled long and steady, with patience en-during:
The trace of their work tells to all, " It was
hard."
It was hard, but they joyed in the fruits of their
labor,
And jealously guarded their rich golden store:
With zeal unabating they faithfully labored
Till the harvest was past, and the summer was
o'er.
SINCERITY.
COVETOUSNESS.
BY E. M. ZINN.
IN these last days men and women are
in a hurry to make money and will not
stop to consider how good the Lord has
been to them. They will lay plans how to
swindle some one out of something. Now,
dear ones, this is covetousness ( Eph. 5: 3),
and God's Word condemns it, and the one
that is guilty of it has no inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and of God.
Heb. 13: 5 reads, " Let your conversation
be without covetousness ; and be content
with such things as ye have : for he bath
said, I will never leave thee nor forsake
thee." Dear souls, we should appreciate
this precious promise more than we do,
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Oct. 6, 1904.
TO GROW AND INCREASE AND ABOUND.
Giving is' a Christian grt e for which
Paul praises the saints at Philippi, " Not
because I desire a gift; but I desire fruit
that may abound to your account." Phil.
4: 17. That ye might be filled with the
knowledge of his will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding; that ye might
walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,
being fruitful in every good work, and
increasing in the knowledge of God;
strengthened with all might, according to
his glorious power, unto all patience and
long- suffering with joyfulness ; giving
thanks unto the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the ' inheritance
of the saints of light." Col. 1 : 9- 12.
Praise God for such promises ! " And the
apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our
faith." Luke 17: 5. " We are bound to
thank Gad always for you, brethren, as it
is meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the charity of every one
of you all toward each other aboundeth."
2 Thes. 1: 3. " Rooted and built up in him,
and established in the faith, as ye have
been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving." Col. 2: 7. " Now the God
of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing. that ye may abound in hope,
through the power of the Holy Ghost.
And I myself also am persuaded of you,
my brethren, that ye also are full of good-ness,
filled with all knowledge, able also to
admonish one another." Rom. 15 : 13, 14.
" Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know that your labor is not in vain in
the Lord." 1 Cor. 15 : 58. •
All Bible readers know what became of
the man that failed to use his talent, and
the blessing pronounced upon those who
put their talents to good use. In these
perilous times it is impossible to discern
truth from error without the aid of the
blessed Holy Spirit; for Jesus says, " With-out
me ye can do nothing."
In Paul's letter to the Hebrews, he says,
" For when for the time ye ought to be
teachers, ye have need that one teach you
again which be the first principles of the
oracles of God; and are become such as
have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
For every one that uses milk is unskil-ful
in the word of righteousness; for he
is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to
them that are of full age, even those who
by reason of use have their senses excerised
to discern both good and evil." Heb. 5: 12-
14. It is evident that Paul wanted them to
grow, and tells them that by reason of use
their senses are excerised to discern good
and evil. Paul says also that we are not
ignorant of Satan's devices. 2 Con 2: 11.
So, in order to grow we must read God's
Word, and prayerfully follow all the plain
teachings, and daily ask for light, and
walk in it as we get it, or just measure
up to all the Word of God. " But speaking
the truth in love, may grow up into him
in all things, which is the head, even
Christ." Eph. 4: 15. " In whom all the
building fitly framed together groweth un-to
an holy temple in the Lord." Eph. 2: 21.
Praise God for such a beautiful building,
built on Jesus Christ and fitly framed, and
grown together in him, and all the build-ing
material polished and shining with the
beautiful Christian graces he bestows upon
them.
Dear ones, let us look diligently unto
ourselves that we Lose none of these things.
" According as his divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life
and godliness, through the knowledge of
him that hath called us to glory and
virtue: whereby are given unto us exceed-ing
great and precious promises; that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that
is in the world through lust. And besides
this, giving all diligence, add to your faith,
virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to
knowledge, temperance; and to temperance,
patience; and to patience, godliness ; and
to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness, charity. For if these be
in you, and abound, they make you that
ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful
in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But he that lacketh these things is blind,
and can not see afar off, and hath forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give dili-gence
to make your calling and election
sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall
never fall : for so an entrance shall be min-istered
unto you abundantly into the ever-lasting
kingdom of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be
negligent to put you always in remem-brance
of these things, though you know
them, and be established in the present
truth." 2 Pet. 1: 3- 12. Amen.
PRAYER.
" HEAR YE TTfl WORD OF THE LORD."
( Ezek. 13 : 2)
BY JENNIE C. RUTTY.
MANY dear souls have felt grieved when
the Word of God was taught clearly re-garding
the teachers and preachers who are
not teaching and preaching the pure Word
of God. They thought they should be more
tenderly dealt with, that only the pleasant
things of the gospel should be taught, some-thing
that would encourage these popular
teachers to seek for a real experience.
While the Word of God speaks clearly
and positively about the people of God be-ing
filled with love to - God, to one another,
In sinners, and to enemies, it also tells them
to " speak the truth in love." For some
time the first three verses of the thirteenth
chapter of Ezekiel have been deeply im-pressed
upon my heart and mind. They
came as a revelation to me in regard to our
duty to false teachers. It had seemed near-ly
useless to talk to the denominational
preachers regarding the present truth, but
this scripture made the matter appear very
differently. The first thought is that God
spake to Ezekiel and told him just what to
do with the false teachers of that time.
The next thought is that these teachers
were to be recognized by the prophet. The
next consideration is then, are we to know
them now ? Rom. 16 : 17 makes this very
plain when it says, " Mark them which
cause divisions and offenses contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned and avoid
them. For they that are such serve not our
Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly;
and by good words and fair speeches de-ceive
the hearts of the simple."
Having these two points firmly settled in
our hearts : first, that God tells us just how
to treat false teachers; second, that we are
to know them, then surely we can know our
duty and have grace to do it. Here we have
it very clearly in the second verse of our
text. " Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say
thou unto them that prophesy out of their
own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord."
These words are very forcible. The false
preachers are to be preached against, they,
are to be told by the true ministers that
they should " hear the word of the Lord"
Are we doing this as frilly as God would
have us ? Do we go to them in the love of
Jesus and show them the mistake they are
making in teaching the things their own
hearts have conceived instead of God's holy
Word? Have we had the boldness to de-clare
to them that their teaching of denoin-inationalisin
is unscriptural, and show
them by the Word the oneness of God's
people? Have we on entering a new place
tried to win the souls of the ministry to
the truth, or have we utterly ignored their
presence and gone on our way indifferent
to their condition ? Have we said to them,
" Hear ye the Word of the Lord; thus saith
the Lord God, Woe to the, foolish prophets
that follow their own spirit, and have seen
nothing"? There are so many ways to tell
it in love, and yet it be the wonderful burn-ing
truth of God. It is time the truth
is bolder in its opposition to that which re-jects
it. There will be greater blessing upon
the saints as they move out and meet the
persecution that comes from this source:
Several years ago while in the work in
Topeka, Mrs. Woodworth held a meeting in
another part of town. I had heard her
there nine years before and realized an aw-ful
power that had to be resisted lest it
should draw us in, as an eddy does those
who are near it in a stream of water. I
felt impressed to go to the second meeting
to again investigate it. Mrs. Woodworth
preached, and during the sermon my soul
was graciously stirred against the spirit
manifested. After the preaching there was
an altar service, and a woman fell in a
trance and a man shouted until most of the
large congregation left . their seats and
crowded forward around the altar. It was
all so repulsive to the spirit within me that
I felt it ought to be reproved in some way.
So I kept praying God to make duty plain.
It came to me that I ought to reprove her,
but how ? I could not press through the
crowd, neither did I think it should be
done publicly. In waiting on God, it was
soon made clear.
She started from the pulpit down
through the vacated chairs and my prayer
was, " Dear Lord, if it is your will for me
to speak to her, send her to me." Several
times she offered to go in a different di-rection,
but she was finally right in front
of me. I arose and offered my hand say-ir
" Sister, there is a difference between
popular religion and Bible salvation." She
replied, " Yes, but this is not popular re-ligion."
I said, " The Word says, ' Try the
spirits, for many false prophets are gone
out into the world.' " She replied, " Yes,
have you been here through the service,
and have you done this ?" I answered,
" In the fear of God I have." She said,
" Then what is your decision." My an-swer
was, " God wants me to tell you in
his fear and love that this is not- the Spir-it
and power of God." She turned away
saying in harshest tones, " More of the
iScnpeiwrit.,, and power of God than you ever
Oh, how God did bless me ! How he
filled my soul with glory ! I had nearly for-gotten
this experience when first getting an
inspiration from the text, then it came as
a verification of its efficacy, of its applica-tion
to us and the present. May God bless
it to others, remembering - God's great love
to the erring.
THE LORD LOVES YOU.
BY ELLA MARBURGER.
" Fos, the Father himself loveth you,
because ye have loved me, and have be-lieved
that I came out from God." John
16 : 27. Dear discouraged soul, did you
ever stop to think that Father really loves
" you" and exercises a personal care over
you? Yea, he says that even " the very
hairs of your head are all numbered."
" Like as a father pitieth his children, so
the Lord pitieth them that fear him." Do
you fear the Lord?
The Lord loved you even while you were
yet a sinner. How much more now, when
you are seeking with your whole heart to
know and do his will and walk pleasing in
his sight ? " But God commendeth his love
toward - tis, in that while we were yet sin-
BY MARY S. A. ANDERSON.
FOR the glory of God we will consider
this subject in the light of his Word. We
all understand what is meant by growth.
Should we see a child that had failed to
grow, we would know at once there was
something wrong ; the same is true in re-gard
to the spiritual life. Ther is never
an effect without a cause, and to fail to
grow spiritually results from some cause.
In 1 Cor. 3 : 1, 2, Paul tells the Corinthian
church that he could not speak unto them
" as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even
as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you
with milk and not with meat ; for hitherto
ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now
are ye able." And in the next verse he
tells them of the cause of their failure to
grow : " For ye are yet carnal; for whereas
there is among you envying, and strife,
and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk
as men?" We see it was the works of the
flesh that kept them in a weak condition.
We are commanded to grow. " Where-fore
[ for which reason] laying aside all
malice, and all guile, and all hypocrisies,
and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born
babes, desire the sincere milk of the
word, that ye may grow thereby." 1 Pet.
2: 1, 2. We must lay aside these works of
the flesh as new- born babes, and desire the
sincere milk of the Word, that we may
grow thereby. We also must have proper
food in order to grow, and the proper
food is found in the Word of God. Being
fed on carnal desires only retards growth
and weakens spirituality. We must grow
in the different graces of the Spirit, just
as each member of the child's natural body
receives growth.
Notice the different graces in which we
are to grow, increase, and abound. " But
grow in grace, and in the knowledge of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." 2 Pet.
3 : 18. " And God is able to make all grace
abound towards you; that ye, always hav-ing
all sufficiency in all things, may abound
to every good work." 2 Cor. 9: 8. Praise
God for abounding grace! " And this I
pray, that your love may abound yet more
and more in knowledge and in all judg-ment;
that ye may approve things that
are excellent; that ye m'y be sincere and
without offense till the day of Christ; be-ing
filled with the fruits of righteousness,
which are by Jesus Christ ; unto the glory
and praise of God." Phil. s 9- 11.
for truly it means much to be saved from
such evil doings.
Now there are many ways of being cov-etous.
We do not need to steal a horse to
be covetous, but covetousness proceeds out
from the heart. Mark 7: 22, 23. Here Mark
classes covetousness with the very worst
sins that can be committed.
Let us examine ourselves, and see wheth-er
we have anything in our hearts that
God's Word condemns as covetousness ; if
we have may God help us to get saved from
it. In a greatanany cases the preachers are
as covetous as the members, for - they will
set a salary and make the members of their
sect pay it, or they will not preach. May
God get a hold on such and shake them up
on this line with real Bible conviction.
God's eternal Word says not to keep com-pany
with such persons ( 1 Cor. 5 : 11),
much less be guilty of the same sins our-selves.
I would to God that more people
would examine themselves by God's look-ing-
glass ( Bible), and see their condition
as God sees them. Surely they would for-sake
their wicked, covetous ways.
" This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. For men shall
be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy." 2 Tim.
3: 1, 2. We know we are living in perilous
tirnes,' so let us watch unto prayer and ex-pose
the tricks of Satan and lend a helping
hand to our fallen comrades.
BY EDITH ASHENFELTER.
GOD in his Word has given many rules
to guide us in our prayer and devotion to
him that we may be filled with his Spirit,
and not have only a forniof worship. Let
us notice a few commands and promises
on the subject of prayer. " Pray without
ceasing." 1 Thes. 5 : 17. " Continue in
prayer, and watch in the same with thanks-giving."
Col. 4: 2. " Praying always with
all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
and watching thereunto with all persever-ance
and supplication for all saints." Eph.
6 : 18.
Though our prayers never cease we must
not use vain repititions as do the heathen.
" When ye pray, use not vain repititions, as
the heathen do: for they think that they
shall be heard for their Much speaking."
Mat. 6: 7. Our prayers should be clothed
in simple, easily- understood language, ex-pressing
the desire of the heart and not
the eloquence of the tongue. God has given
us enough to pray for without wasting time
on high- sounding, meaningless phrases. Let
us see to it that We pray to God from earn-est
hearts, and ever keep free from all taint
of that abominable practise of " delivering
prayers to an audience."
" I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
giving of thanks, be made for all men; for
kings, and for all that are in authority;
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and honesty." 1 Tim. 2:
12. " Pray for them which despitefully use
you, and persecute you." Mat. 5: 44. " Con-fess
your. faults one to another, and pray
one for another, that ye may be healed."
Jas. 5: 16. " Finally, brethren, pray for
us, that the word of the Lord may have
free course, and be glorified, even as it
is with you: and that we may be delivered
from unreasonable and wicked men." 2
Thes. 3: 1, 2. " Be careful for nothing;
but in everything by prayer and supplica-tion
with thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God." Phil. 4: 6. " Let
us be diligent in prayer, for - God is pleased
with such sacrifice, and has said, ' Whatso-ever
ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall
receive.' Mat. 21: 22. Read Mat. 6: 5, 6 ;
1 Tim. 2: 8.
Oct. 6, 1904.
ners, Christ died for us. Much more then,
being now justified by his blood, we shall
be saved from the wrath to come." Rom.
5: 8, 9.
How can you be discouraged and give
Tip the battle when the Lord has in so
many ways proven his love to you? First,
he proved his love by giving " his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believ-dh
in him should not perish but have ever-fisting
life." No doubt you have read and
heard this text repeated time after time.
But did you ever make it personal? It was
the love God has for you that caused him
to give his only begotten Son to suffer
death on the cruel cross, that you might
Might be redeemed from sin. The poet
has truly said,
" Such love can not be fathomed,
' Tis like the boundless sea."
` He spared not his own Son, but deliv-ered
him up for us all,' yousiicluded.
Then, he has given so many precious
promises to his children, in his Word, and
remember, they are yea and amen in him.
When you read them, make them personal.
Apply them to yourself. They are yours.
' The Lord did not give them to fill up
: space only. No, dear one. He gave them
: for your encouragement. " I will instruct
thee and teach thee in the way which thou
: shalt gee I will guide thee with mine eye."
Then cease your worrying and fretting,
; but trust the Lord, and he will guide you.
, he will not permit you to go astray, or
allow you to be deceived if in simple trust-ing
faith you cling to him. What if the
way seems sometimes dark and you can not
feel the presence of your God? Has he
not proven faithful in the past? Even
when you were yet in your sins he cared
for you. Think bow he called after you
when you had no desire to serve him.
oimuld he be less careful for you now ?
to indeed. He still loves you. And while
at times his presence seems far away, and
you feel depressed and discouraged, remem-ber
that the Lord does not change with
your feelings, but is ever the same. " I
am the Lord, I change not," Praise his
dear name!
FEET- WASHING.
- THE100wing article by W. B. Godbey,
which recegtly appeared in the Revivalist,
is an invention of Satan calculated to de-ceive.
" ' Please . explain in God's Revivalist,
make it plain so it can be understood,
whether feet- washing is a commandment,
obligatory on the saints, as so many claim
we do not live up to God's command-ments.'
" John 13: 14- 20 is the only Case we have.
Meanwhile Jesus girded with the towel is
going ahead washing his disciples' feet.
` Then he comes to Simon Peter, and he
says to him, Lord, Lord, do you wash my
feet? Jesus responded and said: What I
( do thou knowest not now, but mayest know
Hereafter. Peter says to him, You can
never wash my feet. Jesus responded to
him, If I shall not wash thee, thou host
no part with me. Simon Peter says to
him, Lord, Lord, not only wash my feet,
but my hands and my head.' Here we have
the only case of inspired record, setting
forth the transaction of foot- washing. The
very fact that Jesus said to Peter, What I
do thou knowest not now, but mayest know
herafter,' forever sweeps away the literal-ism
of the transaction, and establishes its
symbolism beyond a possibility of a doubt
or cavil. If it had been literal, Peter did
know what Jesus was doing, for he saw him
washing their feet.
" The simple solution of the whole mat-ter
was that Jesus taught them a great les-son
in humility in Christian grace, which
Peter never understood until after he re-ceived
the fiery baptism at Pentecost, which
burnt up all of his pride and brought him
down to spend the balance of his life in the
bottom of the valley of humiliation, where
iehved a hero and died a martyr.
" In Palestine, the people generally go
Barefoot, - unless they travel on a journey;
then they use sandals, which they always
: leave at the door when entering the house.
Pursuant to the courtesy of hospitality, the
servant meets the guest at the door with . a
Pan of water and a towel, takes off _ Ins.
Bandals and washes the feet. If in this
climate of cold and rain you would obey
f
that commandment, instead of washing the
eet, which is not here an act of hospital-ity,
YOU would simply, in Ethiopian dialect,
give your guest a ' good shine,' as blacking
the shoes is really an act of hospitable
courtesy, while washing the feet is not.
We are to be ' all things to all men.'
':,, Rom the simple fact of its intrinsical
.160 ce we should not oppose it. We
we liberty in all non- essentials. The
THE TIME AND PLACE.
By reference to Mat. 26: 17- 34; Mark 14:
12- 30 ; Luke 22: 7- 23, 31- 34, it will be seen
that Peter and John prepared the paschal
supper in " a large upper room furnished."
Also in the evening he sat down with the
Twelve, and they ate the passover. During
the eating of it he pointed out Judas who
should betray him, and t del Peter how he
would deny him. In John 13 it is recorded
that while Jesus was sitting at the table
( compare verses 2- 4, 12) he pointed out
Judas in the same language that Matthew,
Mark, and Luke record it. Ver. 21- 26;
Luke 22: 21- 23; Mark 14: 18- 21; Mat. 26 :
21- 25. He also told Peter how he would
deny him. Ver. 36- 38. So the supper in
John 13 must be the same as the passover
mentioned in the Other Gospels.
In John's narrative, he designed es-pecially
to supply what was omitted by the
other evangelists. As they had fully de-scribed
the institution of the communion
Supper, he omits it. By reading all four
together, we have a clear account of what
took place in that upper room.
Feet- washing then was instituted by
Jesus Christ in the same room, in the same
night, OD the same occasion as he instituted
the communion Supper. All this was but
a few hours before his etrayal, and, in
fact, but a little while before his eruci-his
earthly ministry. Strange that at this
solemn time he would indulge in non- es-sentials.
The fact that Jesus washed his
disciples' feet in the upper room at the
same time and place that he broke the
bread, forever demolishes Mr. Godbey's
plea that it was the old custom for cleanli-ness.
Had the old custom been observed,
they would have washed before entering
the house, especially before entering the
large, furnished upper room. Jesus gave
them to understand that the object was not
cleanliness. " Ye are clean." The custom
of the Jews was to bathe twice before en-tering
the paschal room. So it is evident
that the apostles had been to the bath be-fore
entering the furnished room. This
fact destroys the modern plea of cleanli-ness.
NOT TEE OLD CUSTOM.
We are ready to admit that in oriental
countries it was customary for people to
wash their feet for cleanliness. But the
same custom continues among all cleanly
people. in all nations. What has that to
do with the feet- washing instituted and
commanded by Christ in that room. before
his apprehension? No more than bathing
has to do with baptism, or eating supper
has to do with the Lord's Supper. Jesus
said to Peter, " - What I do thou knowest
not now." Peter knew all about the Jew-ish
custom. But the thing Jesus was there
performing was a new thing to him. Again
I would ask, Would Jesus make an old Jew-ish
custom a test of fellowship between him
and a beloved apostle who had forsaken all
to fellow him? Surely not. Yet Jesus
said ti Peter, " If I wash thee not, thou
hast no part with me." What Jesus was
there performing was of such vital impor-tance,
and of such a sacred nature that had
Peter refused he would have been cut off
from relationship with his Master. It would
be well for such men as Godbey and other
truth perverters to meditate here a while.
Again, would Paul make an old Jewish
custom a condition upon which widows
were to be taken into the number for sup-port
of the church, or, as some suppose,
into the number of deaconesses ? Hardly.
Yet one of the conditions was, " If she
have washed the saints' feet." 1 Tim. 5:
9, 10.
THE SANDAL PLEA REFUTED.
Mr., Godbey refers to the fact that san-dals
were worn in oriental countries. At
certain times of the year this was true, but
the night Jesus washed his disciples' feet
it was cold— so cold that Peter sat by a
fire to warm himself. Luke 22: 55, 56; Mark
14: 67. Rather a cold time to be barefoot-ed
or simply wearing sandals. But it is a
fact that they also wore shoes. It was not
an impossibility to get leather, for we read
of " one Simon a tanner by the seaside."
But, had Jesus washed his disciples' feet
because they wore sandals, he would have
done so at the door before entering the
house, especially before entering the upper
furnished room.
NOT A - MOSIAC RITE.
Mr. Godbey fails to cite one text where
the feet- washing Jesus performed was a
rite of Moses' law, nor can he. There is
not a sentence in all the book of the law
that intimates such a thing. There was a
feet- washing performed by the priests at
the door of the tabernacle. They washed
their hands and feet at the laver before en-tering
the sanctuary; but this had nothing
to do with that which Jesus instituted, no
more than Jewish washings has to do with
New Testament baptism.
NOT A SYMBOL.
till Pentecost to make known to Peter and
the rest what he had done ? No indeed.
" So after he had washed their feet, and
had taken his garments, and was set down
again, he said unto them, Know ye what I
have done to you? Ye call me Master and
Lord : and ye say well ; for so I am. If I
then, your Lord and Master, have washed
your feet; ye also ought to wash one an-other's
feet. For I have given you an ex-ample,
that ye should do as I have done
to you." John 13: 12- 15. This nails the
matter fast. The words of Christ forever
establish the fact that feet- washing was in-stituted
by our Lord and Master to be
observed by his disciples, Here he made
known to them just what he had done. He
washed their feet and thus set them the
example to do likewise. So he instructed
them that they ought and should wash one
another's feet.
Who will deny that Jesus literally
washed his disciples' feet? Now he turns
to them and says, " If I then, your Lord
and Master, have washed your feet ; ye also
ought to wash one another's feet." How
does Mr. Godbey know that Jesus insti-tuted
a literal ordinance, the communion
Supper to be literally observed?
Why not argue that Jesus did break
literal bread and give them literal wine,
but this was only a symbol of his body and
blood, and Jesus said, " Eat my flesh and
drink my blood;" namely, " the living
bread which came down from heaven,
which if a man eat thereof, he shall live
forever." No doubt Mr, Godbey would an-swer,
" Jesus broke literal bread, and gave
them the literal fruit of the vine, and then
said to them, ' This do in remembrance of
me.' Also Paul refers to its observance
in his letter to the Corinthians, chap. 11."
Amen. And the sameis true of feet- washing.
Jesus poured literal water into a basin and
literally washed his disciples' feet, in the
same room, and on the same occasion, that
he broke bread. After he washed their
feet, he turned to them all and said, " Ye
also ought to wash one another's feet. For
I have given you an example." And ill
the eleventh chapter of 1 Corinthians, Paul
says, " Now I praise you, brethren, that
ye remember me in all things, and keep the
ordinances, as I delivered them to you."
Ver. 2. Paul had delivered " ordinances"
( in the plural) to the church, and praised
them for keeping " them." These could be
none other than feet- washing and the Lord's
Supper. And in his first letter to Timo-thy
( 5: 9, 10) he mentions the " washing
of the saints' feet." So with all Mr. God-bey
' s effort, feet- washing is still a part of
the gospel, and we the servants of our Lord
and Master, in obedience to his command
" wash one another's feet."
ARE YOU TROUBLED WITH MOTHS?
THERE are to- day many good recipe
books in circulation. Many valuable things
are to be gleaned from such books. There
are good recipes for most all kinds of cook-ing;
for removing grease spots from woolen
goods, for cleaning silk, for silver- plated
knives and forks, for destroying insects,
etc. Sometimes these recipes are sold at
quite a high price. I read in a book to- day
a good recipe for moths, which I will give
freely to the reader because I received it
freely, and the greatest of teachers has
said, " Freely ye have received, freely
give." Here it is : " Lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven where moth nor rust
doth not corrupt." Mat. 6 : 20. Go through
your wardrobe and bring out unused blank-ets,
coats, shawls, cloaks, quilts, etc., and
give to the poor or to the Faith Homes.
This is a much better way to keep out
moths than the use of camphor balls. It
is also a good way to keep weevil out of
your wheat. To use all the money and meat
you can spare in this way is an excellent
preventative of robbery. Lay up your
blankets and shawls and coats and cloaks
and quilts and' wheat and meat and money
and all else you may have. Lay them up
in heaven by giving where they are needed,
and you will not be troubled with moths
nor rust nor thieves. Try it. C. E. 0.
" For Zion's sake will I not hold my
peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not
rest, until the righteousness thereof go
forth as brightness, and the salvation there-of
as a lamp that burneth. And the Gen-tiles
shall see the righteousness, and all
kings thy glory."
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Christian Jews practised the Mosaic rites
until they were driven out of Jerusalem
by the Roman armies forty years after our
Savior ascended to heaven.
cised Timothy long
Paul circura-after
had become a
dead letter superseded b y
it
the Christian bap-tism.
In essentials, he redemption of
the world by the vicarious atonement of
Christ, the regeneration and sanctification
tion and experimental
of the heart by the Holyr lhGdhost, the recep-indwelling
Comforter, on e
aalli zta
bes
tion of the
realities witnessed by the Holy Ghost, w
rious
can make no compromise, and Ciare not une-der
any circumstances lower the standard."
The writer first endeavors to blind
the mind of the reader by making it appear
that Jesus was only teaching them " a great
lesson in humility in Christian grace, which
Peter never understood until after he re-ceived
the fiery baptism at Pentecost."
Next, he tries to associate it with the an-cient
custom of washing feet for cleanli-ness,
" an act of hospitality." Third, he
tries to confound it with " Mosaic rites,"
and classes it one of the " non- essentials."
So according to his logic, Christ simply
followed the ancient custom of washing
feet, and performed an act of hospitality,
washed his disciples' feet for cleanliness.
At the same time he performed a Mosaic
rite, and in it taught his disciples a great
lesson of humility. The same was a non-essential.
So teaches Mr. Godbey, promi-nent
among the false holiness movements
of to- day. But what saith the Word?
" Jesus knowing that the Father had giv-en
all things into his hands, and that he was
come from ' God, and went to God; he riseth
from supper, and laid aside his garments;
and took a towel, and girded himself. After
that he poureth water into a bason, and be-gan
to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe
them with the towel wherewith he was
girded. Then eometh he to Simon Peter :
and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou
wash my feet ? Jesus answered and said
unto him, What I do thou knowest not now ;
but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter saith
unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not,
thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter
saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only,
but also my hands and my head. Jesus
saith to him, He that is washed need not
save to wash his feet, but is clean every
whit: and ye are clean, but not all. For
he knew who should betray him; therefore
said he, Ye are not all clean. So after he
had washed their feet, and had taken his
garments, and was set down again, he said
unto them, Know ye what I have done to
you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye
say well ; for so I am. If I then, your Lord
and Master, have washed your feet; ye also
ought to wash one another's feet. For I
have given you an example, that ye should
do as I have done to you. Verily, verily,
I say unto you, The servant is not greater
than his lord; neither he that is sent greater
than he that sent him. If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them." John
13 : 3- 17.
I have here given the full account
of the institution of feet- washing. We will
first consider
fixion. It was the most solemn time in allhe should know hereafter. But did he wait
Mr. Godbey is very bold in the assertion
that Jesus did not institute a literal ordi-nance
to be observed. He asserts that when
Jesus said to Peter, " What I do thou know-est
not now, but thou shalt know here-after,"
he forever swept away the literal-ism
of the transaction, and established its
symbolism beyond question or cavil. Then
he asserts that Peter never understood its
meaning until he received the fiery baptism
on Pentecost. Here Mr. Godbey perverts
the facts and speaks a : vision of his own
head. Let us investigate the truth as it is.
What Jesus said to Peter utterly refutes
Mr. ' Godbey's plea for the Jewish custom
or Mosaic rites. Peter fully understood
these, but what Jesus was there instituting,
Peter at this time did not understand.
Jesus while washing Peter's feet told him
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Are you antisectarian?
There are people who are antisectarian
and others who are non- sectarian.
The two words are nearly alike, but
their meanings are vastly different.
To be antiseetarian means to be against
all, sectarianism, while to be non- sectarian
is to be on a compromise with all sects.
Which side are you on?
Are you an the compromise a little with
the sects? It is easier to compromise a
little, you know, for the sake of worldly
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the name of the church I belong to. It is
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of his truth. If we stand in defense of
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God! J. E. P.
The enemy's forces are at work now to
bring about this reformation hindrances
on the line of divine healing as never be-fore.
Sometime ago the height of opposi-tion
was a doctrinal point as to whether
or not healing is in the atonement; but at
the present time a special effort is being
made to get people to teach or practise the
use of the natural forces, the perversion of
which is termed magnetic healing or hyp-notism,
or the use of human magnetism.
Hypnotism being brought into use, and
same who have been useful on the line of
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these things and have fallen a prey to
the power of the enemy on these lines. And
when praying for the sick, just at the time
when faith ought to be centered in the
Lord, these other things present themselves
upmost in the mind and prove to be a
hindrance to the healing. Many are tam-pering
with these tools of Satan to the
hurt of their spiritual development of fu-ture
usefulness for the Lard.
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in numbers, as well as an increase
of the power and grace of God. The chil-dren
of God in Babylon are beginning to
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many are coming home to Zion. I doubt
not the time is near for a mightier in-crease
in the work among our people.
The publishing work is also on the ad-vance
for God and lost souls. The breth-ren
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finding out it is of God, and that we are
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GENERAL NOTES AND
NEWS.
Over ten thousand copies of the Shin-ing
Light are sent out each week. This is
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ought to be in every home.
The amount sent in for free literature
last week was $ 149.73, which was more than
thirty dollars less than the week before.
$ 7.726.85 worth await the sending, and
will go forth as means are sent in for that
purpose. We are receiving more calls from
the workers on this line than we are able
to supply at present.
come upon people in their wickedness by-the
sudden coming of the Lord and end of
time. " Be ye therefore ready."
Mrs. Woodworth, the trance evangelist
of a few years ago, who made quite a stir
in St. Louis, Southern Indiana, Kentucky,
and Illinois, is again on the stage of action,
after a silence of about fifteen years. It is
reported that since that time she has been
divorced from her husband, who has since
died, and she has remarried and now ap-pears
as Mrs. Etter. She is of the Wine-orennarian
faith, who sometimes call them-selves
Church of God. Years ago many
of those of her audience would fall under
the power of her influence and sometimes
for hours lie stiffened under the hypnotic
influence. While in this condition they
claimed to see beautiful visions of the heav-enly
realms. The Bible tells us that Satan
sometimes makes his appearance as an an-gel
of light. If he can get people to fall
under such power and make them believe
it is the power of God he has accomplished
his purpose.
_ A Protestant minister at Oorfa, Turkey
in Asia, recently informed us that a Ger-man
lady missionary in that country had
presented him with a copy of the Secret
of Salvation, Kingdom of GO, and other
books from our Office, which he was read-ing
with much interest and profit. He
asks for prayers for himself and the people
of that country. The literature that has
been sent forth abundantly during the past
few months is yielding fruit unto the Lord,
and the pages of sacred truths have encir-cled
the globe and openings are rapidly be-ing
made for the gospel in the lands be-yond
the sea.
A copy of an English edition of a paper
called " The Victory of Faith," edited by
Bro. A. D. Khan, 39-- 4 Sukea's St., Cal-cutta,
India, has been received at our Office.
Price 75 cents a year. They will likely pub-lish
the same in some of the native lan-guages.
" The Light from the Orient," is
a paper published by Bro. and Sister
Robert Jarvis, Lahore, India, principally
in behalf of the orphanage and famine
work. Price 50 cents a year.
In that way one's religious foes are few-er
and we are not considered so sectish,
narrow, prejudiced, and such like.
We occasionally find people who are
nearer non- sectarian than antisectarian,
though they claim freedom from sect bond-age.
The gospel of Christ is antisectarian
throughout from Matthew to Revelation,
and no one can build a sect or sustain one,
or join one on authority of the gospel.
Dearly beloved saints, we must keep our-selves
free from every taint of sectarianism.
We can not count ourselves of them, nor
count them with us until they accept the
truth and walk out of confusion. God
commands us to " come out from among
them and be separate . . . and touch not
the unclean thing," consequently we
should not attend their meetings.
There may be circumstances when God
would get glory through our attending a
sect meeting, but only in such cases where
they have never heard the whole truth, then
we might testify of our freedom through
Christ. Just to attend their meetings to
see friends or relatives is no excuse. " Let
them return to you, but return not thou
unto them."
Let them oppose you and cast your name
out as evil if they choose, but you see to
keeping God's commandments. Do not al-low
the devil to scare you by telling you
that they will think hard of you if you
do not go among them occasionally. Show
your loyalty to God, be definite and radi-cal,
and stand clear, and on a solid basis ;
be antisectarian through and through, and
do not be afraid that somebody will find
you out.
I am always glad to give my testimony
for Jesus, and to inform honest inquirers
concerning my faith in Christ, and to teach
them of this glorious liberty, to tell them
The system of steam heating is being
inspected and renewed where necessary in
the Office building.
We are in receipt of another manu-script
for a book on which we have already
begun work. It is written by Bro. Orr, and
entitled " Food for the Lambs."
The different Sunday- school classes,
which are instructed in the Home every
Sunday, appear to be prospering. Some
of the adult classes are studying in the
Old Testament.
- There are four meetings per week in the
chapel in which requests for prayer are
mentioned. These are on Sunday at 10: 30
A. M. and Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-day
evenings. An average of one hundred
or more requests per week are observed.
The Trumpet Family is in receipt of a
nice donation, consisting of fifteen bags
of potatoes, from a brother at Venango, Pa.
THE SCANDINAVIAN WORK.
To the Saints and Readers of the Gospel
Trumpet, Greeting in Jesus' precious name
It has been some time since we have writ-ten
through the Trumpet, not because we
have been idle, but our life has been filled
with so much work that very little time
can be found for writing. I am glad to
report victory in my soul this morning,
and I can say, Jesus is still my Savior,
sanctifier, and keeper. Praise God! For
some time I have been very poorly in body,
not using proper wisdom in caring for it,
but, thanks be to God, I can truly say this
morning that he has touched my body with
his healing power, and I am gaining in
strength daily. I do praise God for the
prayers of the saints on this line, as well
as all other lines.
Regarding the Scandinavian work, will
say that we have no evil report to bring
you; the Lord is working among this peo-ple.
The camp- meetings this sum/ ter have
Sentence was recently suspended in the
case of Henry A. Hoffman, which for some
time has been pending in the courts at
Butler, Pa. This is to the effect that the
case has been dropped, or thrown out of
court. Further particulars will be given
later.
Sister Josephine McCrie is in Canada
during her few weeks' absence from the
Office. After visiting a n comber of congre-gations
in Canada and bidding farewell to
parents and friends, she will return to the
Office, and in company with Sister Edith
Ashenfelter expects to sail for India about
Dec. 1st. Let us do our part in praying for
them and providing means to purchase
their tickets and send them, as the same
has not yet been provided.
The Moundsville, W. Va., assembly is to
be held Nov. 20- 27. A good meeting is ex-pected.
Every lover of the truth invited.
Come filled with the Holy Spirit or with
the expectation of being filled.
Advices from London state that there
are thousands of homeless people in the
streets, many of whom walk the streets all
night, while others, penniless, lie down on
doorsteps, boxes, or in the gutter, in the
cold, damp air. Only those who witness the
scenes can realize the suffering and dis-couraging
feelings of such people. On ac-count
of the dense population the author-ities
find it difficult to find temporary lodg-ing
places for them. As winter advances
there is sure to be an increase of suffering.
Mount Vesuvius, the great volcano of
Italy, has for some time been in a state of
eruption. The recent increased activity
has given the people of the city of Naples
and vicinity no little concern regarding
their safety. The lava has been thrown
from the burning crater in such immense
heaps that a railway station and a portion
of the inclined railway have been de-stroyed.
It is liable to break forth with
terrible disastrous eruption at any moment.
In like manner sudden destruction may
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
Ques. 1. If the receiving of the Holy
Ghost and baptizing with the Holy Ghost
is sanctification, were not the disciples sanc-tified
more than once ? If not, please ex-plain
John 20 : 22; Acts 2 : 1- 4; Acts 13:
52 ; Acts 4. 31. E. P.
2. Does Isa. 35: 10 have reference to the
people of God coming out of the sects and
returning to Zion the true church in the
evening time ?
3. Does Jer. 17: 13 mean that the Chris-tian
people had departed from the Lord
when they had their names written in the
earth or class- books of men?
4. Does Jer. 5 : 27 mean that as a cage is
full of birds so are sectarian denomina-tions
full of deceived people?
5. Do the spoilers in Jer. 51 : 53 mean
God's holy ministers now in the evening
light preaching against Babylon?
6. Please explain Hab. 1 14, 15 ; Jer.
16 : 16; Isa. 10 : 27.
Ans. 1. Sanctification and the baptism
with the Holy Ghost are the same expe-rience.
Sanctification is of a twofold na-ture—
cleansing and spirit- filling. The tes-timony
of Peter, Acts 15: 8, 9, tells us of
this twofold nature of the Pentecostal ex-perience.
In John 20: 22 Jesus breathed
on them and said, " Receive ye the Holy
Ghost." In the following verse he said,
" Whose soever sins ye remit, they are re-mitted
unto them; and whose soever sins
ye retain, they are retained." This evi-dently
was not the Pentecostal experience,
for in Luke and Acts we see that he com-manded
them to tarry at Jerusalem until
the endowment of power, which was re-ceived
at Pentecost. Acts 4 : 31 does not
signify that those who were at Pentecost
were refilled with the Holy Ghost. There
was a multitude of them gathered at this
place, and they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost. Acts 13: 52 describes a sim-lar
experience, not that those who had
been at Pentecost were refilled, but the dis-ciples
were filled with joy and with the
Holy Ghost. We have nothing to indicate
that any of the one hundred and twenty
Oct. 6, 1904.
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
lost their sanctification. If they had, then,
of course, there would be the necessity of
a renewal of the experience.
2. Isa. 35: 10 reads, " And the ransomed
of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their
heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
yes, this certainly describes the church in
the evening light. This whole chapter is a
prophecy of the gospel day.
3. Jer. 17 : 13 reads, " 0 Lord, the hope
of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
ashamed, and they that depart from ma
shall be written in the earth, because they
have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of
living waters."
This truly describes a departing from
God and his ways, and nothing could more
perfectly fit the condition of Babylon,
where people have been persuaded to have
their names written on earthly records
called the church record. God has only one
record for the names of his people, and that
is not written on earth. Those who have
their names written on such records on
earth truly depart from God to this ex-tent,
because it is contrary to the ways of
God. Every one of the people of God who
have done this will feel ashamed when
the light of Zion shines upon them, and
will immediately have their names removed
from all earthly records.
4. Jer. 5: 27 reads, " As a cage is full of
birds, so are their houses full of deceit:
therefore they are become great, and waxen
rich."
Yes,' it certainly is a true picture of
Babylon. It is full of deceived souls.
Read Rev. 18: 2.
5. Jar. 51: 52 reads, " Though Baby-lon
should mount up to heaven, and
though she should fortify the height of her
strength, yet from me shall spoilers come
unto her, saith the Lord." As literal Bab-ylon
became proud and haughty, and boast-ed
of her great power and wealth, and was
brought low by the armies of other nations;
so the God of heaven has raised up his
people who have been held in bondage in
spiritual Babylon to cry out against her;
and in this sense the ministers of God in
Zion are spoilers ; for the messages from
Zion call out all of the people of God in
captivity and leave Babylon a spiritual des-olation.
G. Flab. 1: 14, 15 reads, " And makest
men as the fishes of the sea, as the creep-ing
things, that have no ruler over them .
They take up all of them with the angle,
they catch them in their net, and gather
them in their drag; therefore they rejoice
and are glad." The 14th verse belongs to
the 12th and 13th verses which are a se-ries
of questions asked by the prophet. The
15th verse describes the work of Babylon's
taking captive the people of Israel. This
is a true type of spiritual Babylon, which
truly is as a net and drag net to catch souls
like men catch fishes.
Jer. 16: 16 reads, " Behold, I will send
for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they
shall fish them; and after will I send for
many hunters, and they shall hunt them
from every mountain, and from every hill,
and out of the holes of the rocks."
This is prophetical of the manner in
which God gathered his people from literal
Babylon and brought them back to their
own home, Zion; but it has a deeper sig-nification
in a spiritual sense; for it is a
perfect description of the gathering of the
saints from spiritual Babylon. God sends
out fishers and hunters, his ministers and
helpers, who fish and hunt out every one
of the saints who had been scattered. Moun-tains
represent large sects; hills, small
sects; holes of the' rocks, secret societies.
All these are brought out of these places
of deception and confusion, and brought
home to Zion, the church of God. The
fishers mentioned in the first part of the
verse represent the apostles and ministers
in the morning of the gospel day. Liter-ally
some were fishers, and their work was
to be " fishers of men." The gospel work
was compared to fishing. They fished out
all the true people of God from Jewish
bondage and they became free in Christ.
This corresponds with the gospel work
then; but the text reads, " And after will
I send for many hunters." This corre-sponds
with the gospel work in the even-ing
time.
Isaiah 10: 27 reads: " And it shall come
to pass in that day, that his burden shall
be taken away from off thy shoulder, and
his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke
shall be destroyed because of the anoint-ing."
This also is a beautiful description of
deliverance from bondage of the people of
God from Babylon. The Assyrian men-tioned
in verse 24 means the people of
Babylon who were to oppress the people
of Zion, but God promised deliverance.
This was fulfilled in the return from the
captivity. But the true spiritual meaning
of. which the literal was but the type is
the glorious return of the saints of God
in these last days from spiritual Babylon
( the sects) to Zion ( the church). Every
ecclesiastical burden is taken away from
off our shoulder, and every yoke is taken
from off our neck and the yoke truly is
destroyed because of the anointing. It is
this anointing which destroys the sectarian
yokes. No division can exist between two
anointed souls. " For both he that sancti-fieth
and they who are sanctified are all
of one, for which cause he is not ashamed
to call them brethren," Heb. 2: 11. " But
the anointing which ye have received of
him abideth in you, and ye need not that
any man teach you; but as the same anoint-ing
teacheth you of all things, and is truth,
and is no lie, and even as it bath taught
you, ye shall abide in him." 1 John 2: 27.
This, of course, is the grace of sancti-fication,
which so completely destroys
every element of division out of our hearts
that no yoke of division can ever fit upon
our neck; and, best of all, the anointing
utterly destroyes the yoke. There is much
professed sanctification in the various
forms and creeds of Babylon to- day that
pleads for division, and upholds her; but
all such is only the abominable counter-feit
of Satan. Some assumed holiness evan-gelists
preach, " Stay in your church"; but
God says, " Come out of her, my people."
Bible sanctification brings us into perfect
harmony with God and all of his Word,
and completely out of harmony with all
of Babylon; for the yoke is destroyed be-cause
of the anointing. No sanctified soul
can therefore ever be yoked up in Babylon,
neither can such a soul have sympathy for
Babylon, for the yoke is destroyed.
J. W. B. •
NEWS FROM THE FIELD.
PROGRESS OF THE BUJILDING WORK.
It has been quite a while since we have
reported the work of building the " Faith
Home" and meeting- house in Chicago.
God has been so good and has granted us
many favors in many ways— some remark-able
answers to prayer. The cooperation
of the saints in general has been pleasing
to God, and a source of much thanksgiving.
To know that his Spirit has directed, and
that our effort is backed by thousands of
fervent prayers, and the tender sympathy
of so many warm hearts; would utterly
make us ashamed to complain in the least,
or chafe under the severest test. God
would not permit us to bear such great
responsibility without test or trial, lest we
would conclude that " our arm had gotten
us the victory." Some may have imagined
" flowery beds of ease" for the work and
workers in Chicago this year; but thanks
be to God for the willing hearts and conse-crated
hands who have toiled so faithfully
both in the Home and on the buildings.
Praise be to God for the promise that our
reward shall be according to our works.
Plastering was completed on the Home
about one week ago, excepting under
stairs in basement. The meeting- house wall
is up to the first joist and we are now
ready to swing them.
We hope to be able to move into the
Home by the last of next month ( Oct.),
and to get the wall of the meeting- house
up and roof on before freezing weather.
The Home will contain twenty- two rooms
above the basement, also two bath- rooms
and one wash- room. The meeting- house will
be 46x67 ft., divided into suitable parts
for the convenience of both - the local work
and general assemblies.
By means of paid subscriptions, dona-tions,
and loans, we have thus far been able
to pay every bill as we go. However, the
time is now at hand for the settlement in
full for the contracts, as the work is com-pleted
on the Home, and the purchase of
material for the meeting- house, and the
paying off of short loans, etc. These all
combine to increase our present responsi-bility
to the highest pitch during the build-ing
period.
My heart is impressed with the thought
that God wants the body of Christ in
general to know the situation, that each
one may share with us in this matter im-derstandingly.
How can you pray intel-ligently
for God to supply our need unless
you comprehend something of the same?
True, God has talked to some by dreams
and visions about this matter and their
duty, etc. It is not in my power to dictate
how much you shall bear of this responsi-bility
to the throne of grace, nor with
what fervency you shall implore help in
this our time of need, neither as to the
amount you give to the supply of the same.
I felt like stating the ease and requesting
your united prayers and general coopera-tion,
and leave the matter with God to
impress and dictate to your hearts as will
please him most. When God has had his
way in directing your hearts and hands
toward this work, and has accomplished his
purpose, then let no one reproach our God
nor blame his servants by saying, " Too
much time, too much labor, or too much
means, have been spent. on the buildings
in Chicago." If any one gives more time,
labor, or means than God directs, certainly
they are doing too much; for who hath re-quired
it at their hand? If God hath spok-en,
let men and angels keep silent. Job
said, ' When the Almighty speaks, I will
put my hand on my mouth.'
AN ENCOURAGING LETTER.
Some days ago I received the following
letter from a brother in Michigan.
" Dear Brother in Christ: A few nights
ago I had a dream concerning the work an
the Lord's buildings in Chicago. I dreamed
of seeing the people working with all their
might. Things were moving on nicely, no
loafing or murmuring could be seen or
heard. Just then the thought came to my
mind of the little I had done or was doing.
This made me feel ashamed of myself. The
next morning I decided to profit by the
dream by sending ten dollars to be used
for the building purpose, or wherever
needed. You also have our prayers that
God will abundantly bless your labor of
love for him. Yours in him, w. P."
TABLE BEING SUPPLIED.
Fruit and vegetables have been sent in
abundantly, all we could use, cans all filled,
and borrowed more and filled them. Let
all the saints rejoice with us and praise his
name together. A shipping bill just at hand
for about a ton of provisions from Nor-walk
and Ableman, Wis.
We have been unable to answer the
many letters and acknowledge receipt of
things sent in. Please accept this as an
acknowledgement for the same and also
our hearty thanks for the kindness shown.
Do not forget to pray God to furnish the
needed finances on time.
A- friend to the cause has donated the
sum of $ 2,000.00 to the building work al-ready.
Is not this an encouragement to the
saints to trust God and move out for him ?
Your humble servant and brother depend-ing
on him, Geo. L. Cole.
7300 Stewart Ave. -
Note. Laborers are coming and going, but
the supply has been good during this
month. Come, if God sends you. Much
work to be done yet before cold weather.
G. L. C.
Oleta, Okla.
To the Saints, Greeting: We are praising
God for the victory in Jesus our Savior.
The meeting at Bristow was a precious
meeting to many dear souls. The pres-ence
of the Lord caused much rejoicing
among the saints. Some came to the altar
for pardon, some for sanctification, and
some for healing. The saints were truly
knit together in love.
From here we went to the Dixie meet-ing,
which had been called in; but owing
to the shortness of the notice the brethren
thought it wisdom to go ahead with the
meeting, which was done in the name of
Jesus. The baser sort made some threats
of disturbance, but we committed the meet-ing
to God's protection, and, remembering
that his promises could not fail, we were
not afraid to trust him.. Consequently,
we had the best of order from the begin-ning
to the close of the meeting. Many
obstacles, which had been in the way, were
removed in answer to prayer. Two were
saved, and others benefited. Two were
baptized. The meeting closed with an or-dinance
service, Bros. Smith, Miller, and
Sister Drake were used of the Lord in the
declaration of his truth.
' We then went to Emory, Tex., where we
found some souls hungering for the Word
of God, and anxious to hear the whole
truth. A few were saved, and some pro-fessed
sanctification. Two were hurried
with Christ in baptism. The saints were
encouraged to press the battle on. Bro.
York is faithfully holding up the Word in
these parts, but he needs help. Pray for him.
The next meeting was ten miles south
of Athens, Tex., where the Lord gave real
victory in the teaching of his Word, expos-ing
sin and seetism. Many saw the evils of
sectism, and took a decided stand against
it, and rejoiced to declare their freedom.
Bro. J. M. Cooper, who had been a minis-ter
in the Baptist sect, and who was lead
out of the same by the reading of the . Gos-pel
Trumpet, was baptized. There is an
opening here for an assembly meeting in
the future.
We then went to the Cabot meeting,
which was somewhat hindered by the peo-ple
being in the midst of cotton- picking.
Nevertheless God gave us a good meeting,
and souls were won to the truth. One
professed sanctification, and one brother
who was not clear in his experience was
enabled to get clear before the Lord. There
were many requests for prayer at the close
of the meeting. Any of God's ministers
and workers passing through here will
find a welcome at Bro. John Wright's or
Bro. Spraggler's. Eastern and southeast-ern
Texas is a neglected field, and they are
calling loudly for the pure gospel. Who
will heed the call? Yours in Him,
0. W. Carey.
FROM MOTHER SMITH, TROMBLEY, OHIO.
Once more I greet all the Trumpet read-ers
and the dearly beloved saints of God
in the precious name of Jesus, with a testi-mony
to the glory of God. I am still saved
to the uttermost, with sweeping victory in
my soul over all the works of the world,
the flesh, and the devil. Oh, Halleluiah!
He also keeps this body, which is his tem-ple,
in perfect health and strength to do
quite a little work. He helps me keep this
body clean on the outside and stripped for
the race, following Jesus alone. I just let
Jesus keep his temple in the inside, as it
pleases him. And oh, he is such a good
housekeeper. He never leaves nor for-sakes.
He is a present help in time of
need. When I need help I just tell him
all about it. Oh, it is so sweet to tell it
to Jesus alone. My soul is ever feasting
cn the riches of his grace.
I am not at ease in Zion, although I
did not labor in meeting last winter. The
Lord has helped me to help needy souls
by writing letters. I received many re-quests
for prayer.
Well, I went to the Moundsville meeting
in June in company with Bro. and Sister
Miller. There was much labor to be done
with many dear souls that needed help
from God. Some had to have devils cast
out before they could receive help from
God. Some were healed, some came for
healing, and their faith failed. Some
came deceived by the anti- Christ sect holi-ness
spirit, all conformed to the world,
decked with the devil's styles and fashions
of the world, professing to be saved and
sanctified, and claiming to be missionary
workers. Oh, it is indeed heartrending to
see how the devil is deceiving the people
by a shoddy profession of holiness.
I also went to the Claypool, Ind., camp-meeting,
which was a success. Many souls
received help from the Lord, sinners were
convicted by the preaching of the Word,
and saved from their sins; and believers
were sanctified, and backsliders reclaimed.
Many poor souls were so stupefied by the
opiates of the devil. They were just like
a sleepy person trying to wake up with
their minds all confused and blurred, so
much so that they did not know their
whereabouts. They could not tell what
they came to the altar for, and they were
unable to realize their condition until the
devil's power was rebuked in the name of
Jesus. I never saw so many sleepy, drow-sy,
careless, unconcerned spirits hang over
the people. The Word went forth by the
power of God, and the Holy Ghost sent
the truth wherever it could find a lodging
place. Praise God! The meeting was a
glorious success; sinners were saved, believ-ers
sanctified, devils east out by the power
cf God, and the sick healed. One woman
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Oct. 6, 1904,
was given up to die with umsomption, by
three doctors. The Lord wonderfully
healed and raised her up, and many more
were healed, for which we give all the
praise and glory to God. He alone is wor-thy.
I also praise God for what he did for
me all through the meeting. Truly, he
made me a wonder and marvel to many
by blessing me, and giving me strength in
soul and body. He was holding me up by
his Spirit and power to labor with souls
from early morning till late, some nights
till midnight. One day Mother Byrum and
: Sister Noah Byrom hid me away a few
hours above the book store where people
could not find me, to give me a little rest.
God bless them. Dear Mother O'Brien was
rooming with me in my room, which was
, the Lord's sanctuary. We would be up
( every morning at five o'clock, and nearly
( every morning some one was waiting to
( come in to be prayed for and labored with.
One morning there were five in the hall
waiting for the door to be opened to re-ceive
help from the Lord.
Oh, let me give a shout of warning to
every Trumpet reader to be ready at all
times, for the time is coming when the
door will be shut forevermore. Oh, what
will it profit us if we have our lamps filled
with oil and let the oil of salvation leak
out till we have nothing left but the lamp
without the oil, which is just an empty pro-fession,
and then wait to get to a camp-meeting?
' Be ye also ready, for ye know
not the day nor the hour when the Son of
man cometh.' Oh, how I do praise God
that he is no respecter of persons, and he
is everywhere present, and his ears are ever
open unto the cries of all men and at all
times, to every one that needs and desires
; help.
many souls as he can in this reformation.
Oh, let us be wise and walk as children of
light, " for the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine; but after-their
own lusts they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears; and they
shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables. But of
the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no
need that I write unto you; for yourselves
know perfectly that the day of the Lord
cometh as a thief in the night." " But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness that that day
should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all
the children of light, and the children of
the day. . . . Therefore let us not sleep as
do others; but let us watch and be sober."
" Behold, I will make thee a new sharp
threshing instrument having teeth." ' When
ye see these signs come to pass, know ye
the end is nigh, even at the door. As it
was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in
the coming of Christ.' Oh, let us be
ready.
they have paid full fare to the Portland
assembly meeting of the church of God , as
we expect to make arrangements to return
for one- third fare. All parties should bring
plenty of bedding including bedtick for
straw. Board will be provided at reason.
able rates. For further information ad-dress
Bro. Jas. Bamford or myself, at 430
Hawthorne, Ave., Portland, Ure. aa. T.
Melrose, 0. Assembly meeting. In the
saints' meeting- house, three miles south,
and one and one- half east of Melrose,
Oct. 13- 23. A ll invited. M inisterial help
needed. For information address me at
uakwoud, U. G. M. Campueli.
Fresno, Cal. Camp- meeting. Oct 14-
t i. game place as last year, in park, cor-ner
I) and Fresno streets. J. L. Chaffin.
Now we all know that every reformation
did not live long till it was run into a sect.
And now the devil has all the sects and
their holiness where they give him no
trouble; and now he, with all hell, is let
loose at this last and glorious reformation.
Thank God, this will not be run into a sect.
Praise God, this is come to stay till Jesus
comes. But the devil is destroying just as
Mount Olivet, Ky., Sept. 27.
To all the Saints, Greeting: We prais
God for his mercies, blessings, and grac
which he is bestowing upon us from day
to day. Jesus saves, sanctifies, and hea
all our diseases. The hand of the Lor
. has been upon us for good in all the me e
ings in which we have labored this sum
men Since the Moundsville camp- meetin
we have been constantly in the work. Hel
a. few meetings in Ohio; then the Jelle
sonville, Ky., camp- meeting.. This w
said to be the most successful meeting eve
held upon these grounds. From the ye
commencement the altar was filled with
earnest seekers; some for pardon, an
others for entire sanctification. The heal
ing services were very precious, and som
of the most definite cases we ever wit
nessed. This encouraged the workers wh
were present, and all felt they would with
r
more courage than ever before press th
battle against Satan, sin, and disease. Per
feet harmony prevailed among the minis
try. Those present were Bros. Carte
Ford, Watts, A. J. Kilpatrick, and th
writer. A young sister from Olympia di
a good work among the children and your
people.
From this meeting Bro. K. and I re
turned to our homes at Payne, 0., wher
we stopped a few days, then went to th
Claypool camp- meeting. Here we found
a host of happy children of God enjoying
a glorious feast in the Lord.
On Wednesday Bros. Kilpatrick and
Ebel, Sister Krauft, and I left this
meeting for the Ableman, Wis., camp- meet-ng.
Here we met Bro. A. S. Kriebel, who
ad the tabernacle pitched and all things
eady for meeting. This was a real success
n the settling down and establishing of
he saints, as reported by Bro. Ebel. At
he close of this meeting Bro. Kilpatrick
nd myself returned to Payne, 0., where
ur home camp- meeting had been com-enced
some five days before. This meet-ing
was not as largely attended as at other
times, nevertheless a few souls were saved,
nd some real definite healing by the power
f God, notwithstanding some hindrances
hat existed.
After a few days at home, attending to
orae necessary duties, Bro. Kilpatrick and
came to this place and commenced a
eeting in Jesus' name. We were joined
n the work here by Bro. F. Jones. Let
11 saints pray God to raise up a people
t this place for his own glory.
At the close of this meeting we go to
orehead, Ky., where there are some diffi-ulties
to be adjusted. Then I am compelled
a return to my home and do some repair-g
to my house in order to make it coin-ortable
for my family. We solicit your
rayers that we accomplish this work with
he least possible delay, so that we be not
indered in the rescuing of souls for whom
esus died. Amen. Yours for the rescue
f the perishing, Geo. W. Howard.
Payne. Ohio.
" Better is little with the fear of the
Lord than great treasure and trouble there-with.
Better is a dinner of herbs where
love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there-with."
" In the fear of the Lord is strong con-fidence:
and his children shall have a place
of refuge. The fear of the Lord is a foun-tain
of life, to depart from the snares of
death."
TESTIMONIES.
Atlanta, Mich.
I praise God for salvation and for the
faith he has given me. Christ is my Savior
for both soul and body. The Lord has of
late burdened my heart for perishing souls
in this place. How much we need some
one to come here to preach the pure Word
of God! one whom the Lord sends. I real-ize
that we all have a work to do, for God
has no idlers in his vineyard. I pray God
to awaken every soul to his duty in behalf
of perishing souls. Pray for me that God
will give me wisdom in dealing with my
children; pray for their salvation. Yours
in the one body, Julia Cross.
Knox, N. D.
I feel like giving my testimony to the
honor of the name of the Lord. I am
praising God this morning for a salvation
that saves from sin. It is so sweet to be
saved in Jesus and so precious to be in the
evening light, and to preach the whole
truth of the evening time. Praise God for
the evening light! I praise God also for his
healing power; he has healed us so many
times. All glory to his name! I praise God
for victory in my soul, and that the Lord
permits me to preach the whole truth. I
have been preaching for the sects for some
time, but am now preaching for Jesus. I
• am all on the altar for Jesus. I know that
the Lord called me and has sent me and
I am going to preach the Word of eternal
truth at any cost. I ask all the saints to
pray for me that I may be faithful in the
gospel work. I need your prayers. Your
brother under the blood, E. D. Lander.
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER.
I desire the prayers of the saints every-where
that my daughter may be saved, and
also healed of a complication of diseases
that keeps her continually discouraged in
life. Pray that the Lord may strengthen
my eyes, which have become weak from
- sewing at night. M. J. Cook, Bessemer,
Ala.
Pray that I may be healed of indiges-tion
and stomach troubles, also that I may
become faithful and perfect with God.
Edward P. Whitstine, Thinkie, La.
Pray that I may be healed of asthma,
and also that I may become perfect in the
sight of God. Pray for the healing and
good health of my body. Your sister in
faith, Mrs. M. Whitstine, Bunkie, La.
CALLS FOR MEETING.
If any of God's ministers come through
here, stop and hold a meeting or two. The
whole truth has never been preached here.
Can two or three come and hold a meeting
here this fall? D. F. Frame, Canton, Lin-coln
Co., S. Dak.
Will some one of God's true ministers
come to this place and hold meetings ?
They can make their home at our place.
Bettie H. Frazier, Elwood, Utah.
MEETING NOTICES.
To save space it is necessary to have meeting
notices brief, omitting all that is unnecessary to
be repeated week after week. We will publish
them with full particulars for two or three suc-cessive
weeks immediately preceding their date, if
furnished us. Where reduced rates have been
granted by the railroads and special instructions
are necessary, space will be given on seventh page,
if desired. As a general statement that will apply
to ail meetings, will say that the saints at the
different places are accustomed to meet at the
trains those coming from a distance ( if notified
to do so), and as far as practicable, to provide
for the comfort of all. Provide yourselves with
bedding if possible. Provisions can always be
procured at reasonable rates. In ho case are
there gate fees or charges for admission. Invita-tion
is extended to all.
Quitman, Miss. Camp- meeting. Begin-ning
Oct. 13. Ministerial help is much
needed. Let all that can, come. Bring
bedding and prepare for yourself as much
as possible. W. E. McCree, Pachuta, Miss.
B. Buyprzg, r1A0' z. ds Co., 0. T. Oct. 13- 23. W
The general assembly meeting of the
northwest coast will be held in the new
meeting- house of the saints at 430 Haw-thorne
Ave., Portland, Ore., Oct. 13- 23.
All parties coming should be sure to se-
From the Claypool meeting I went in
( company with Bro. and Sister Fred Smith
- to the Payne 0., meeting. God bless
; the dear ones that so kindly provided.
There were a few souls saved,' some re-
( claimed, some healed. The meeting was
- not, in attendance, what it might have
lbeen, or as it should have been. May
the Lord help us all to be ready for the
awful judgments of God that are being
let loose upon this wicked world, and yet
they take no notice of what is coming. Oh,.
the Lord God help us to wake up, for he
will let loose his eternal farming- mill upon
this reformation, and it will blow out every-thing
that will be too light for the gospel.
0 ye that conform to the world, take down
your fancy hairpins and your unneces-sary
combs that you do not need to keep
your hair up, and every other thing that is
superfluous. Oh, how the devil is creeping
in little by little, and how he is sapping
the spiritual life out of their hearts, then
they become stupid and spiritually careless,
and have no desire for secret prayer ; and
when they do wake up, their minds are
so confused that they can not see their un-done
condition.
I came a long way through the sects, and
I have seen the fall of Babylon. Pride was
the first step. Then the devil introduced
every ungodly thing, such as secrecy and
every other abominable thing of the world,
until all the spiritual life was gone.
The Lord gave me a vision one day while
I was in secret prayer. It was a fanning.
mill. The pure wheat came through en-tirely
separate, perfectly pure and clean,
free from straw and chaff; but where the
straw and chaff went there was also an
immense heap of wheat. Oh, what an
awful picture of the sects ! The straw was
all separate from the chaff, which repre-sents
all the sects. And now comes the
chaff which was between the straw, and the
wheat that went out with the straw and
: the chaff, which represents all sect holi-ness,
which has nothing but an antichrist
' spirit. But now comes the wheat that
went through the mill and . is all separated
from the straw and chaff. What an im-mense
heap of wheat! When it was exam-ined
there was not a sound grain in it.
It was all too light for the gospel, and yet
separate from all the sects. May God give
us understanding.
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Burst, Fla. camp- meeting. Oct. 14- 23.
t ies meeting will ue held on the saints'
camp- ground, live miles southeast a . b't. Meade, in Polk Co., All coming will
get tickets to Ft. Meade. Notify us before-
0 A n d and you will be met with conveyance.
t he train from the north reaches there
about 9 A. M.; from the south about 7: 30
r. M. Let all in reach of this meeting at-tend.
A I I who can, bring bedding, and
come as self- sustaining as you. can, but let
no one stay away because they are pour, for
all will be cheerfully cared for. We are
looking for the best meeting and largest
attendance ever had on these grounds. Let
all the saints pray to this end. Bro. S. L.
speck is expected. For further informa-tion
address, W. 0. Williams, Hurst, Fla.
Fresno, Cal. Camp- meeting. Oct. 14- 23.
J. L. Chaffin.
Colman, Mick Assembly meeting. Be-ginning
Oct. 14, lasting over two Sundays.
Two miles west and one and one- half miles
south. Colman is on the P. M. R. R. Those
coming by rail, write me and set time to
meet you at station. David Mitchell.
Ava, Mo. Arbor meeting. Commenc-ing
Oct. 15. Four miles north east of
Ava on the Mansfield road. Come to
Mansfield, then take stage to Ava. Bros.
Henry, Seaton, and Mason are expected.
Address, M. Gardner, Ava, Mo.
Wolff, Ala. Oct. 20- 30. W. R. Young.
Tekonsha, Mich. Assembly meeting.
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Commencina. Oct. 20, at the chapel. All
are invited. Address C. H. Eldridge,
Burlington, Minh.
Muscatine, Ia. Assembly. Oct. 21- 31.
All lovers of the truth invited. Ministe-rial
help needed. Any true minister filled
with the Holy Ghost invited. J. M. Batch-elor.
Grand Junction, Mich. Assembly. Oct.
21- 30. We are expecting a glorious meet-ing.
Let all attend that can. Guy E.
Foote.
Bronson, Fla. Tabernacle meeting. Oct.
28, to last as long as the Lord leads. Tins
place is on the S. A. L. R. R., between
Cedar Keys and Gainsville, and is the
county seat of Levy county. Let all who
can, make it a point to attend this meeting.
All come as much self- sustaining as possi-ble,
as this is a new place and few to look
after the visitors, though provisions will
be made for all who can not care for them-selves.
Bro. S. Speck is expected at this
meeting. For further information address
W. 0. Williams, Hurst, Fla.
Franks, I. T. Assembly. Commencing
Nov. 1. May the Lord direct some of his
true ministers to this meeting. Would be
glad if Bro. L. L. Porter and wife and Bro.
Shipman could come; however, any one of
God's anointed will find a hearty welcome
and fellowship. We only mention the
above ministers because we know them.
All coming by rail will be met at
Ada, with team, if they will notify me.
Franks is fifteen miles south of Ada, and
in the Chickasaw Nation. Address all
communications to W. H. Howard, Franks,
I. T.
Penton, Ala. Nov. 3- 13. W. A. Slay, La-
Fayette, Ala., R. F. D. No. 2.
The southwestern Missouri assembly
meeting will be held in the saints' new
meeting- house, at Springfield, Mo., com-mencing
Nov. 3. A general invitation is
fgiievlden, mtoo. all. Address W. J. Henry, Spring-
The general assembly meeting of the
church of God in Washington will be held
at the Saints' Home, from Nov. 4 - 14. Let
all who can possibly come, do so. Come
furnished with bedding as far as possible.
There will be a more definite statement
later, in the Trumpet, giving particulars
more fully. A general invitation is given
to all the saints on the Coast, and also the
ministry. For further information watch
the Trumpet. Any one desiring to corre-spond
with the brethren here for
information, address A. B. Peterman, or
B. B. Nail, Colfax, Wash., R. D. No. 3.
Bliss, Mich. Assembly meeting. Nov.
cure certificates from R. R. agent, stating Kei1se8r-. 28. Ministerial help needed. Jerome
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of his love as never before.
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Part. I is devoted to the healing- of the
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body. Among the subjects are: The Doc-trine
of Healing, Can I Be Healed? The
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Sometimes we see a family of boys and
girls who show no signs of the sins that
are the early ruin of many others. They
are healthy and happy; pure and noble,
and excel in what they undertake to do.
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HEART- TO- HEART TALKS.
In this book the author talks to the boys
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motherly way just such truths as
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Divine Healing, Time and Eternity.
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AND THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS' REIGN..
BY H. RIGGLE.
That to be healed by God is the privi-lege
of all his children, the author clearly
proves by the Word of Truth. If we
have not the right to this, what blessing in
the atonement ran we claim? ' With his
stripes we are healed' dare not be sub-tracted
from the fundamental principles
of redemption."
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE
Divine healing is pointed out in God's cov-enant
with Israel, in prophecy. in the life
and ministry of Christ, in the death of
Christ. in the resurrection, in the Acts of
the apostles.
HELPFUL THOUGHTS
am given in regard to retaining healing,
importunity, obtaining the " children's
bread,'' etc.
LIVING WITNESSES
testify to being healed. b y divine power,
of paralysis, heart and nervous disease,
rheumatism, consumption. pneumonia, can-cer,
( hills and fever. female trouble, etc.,
etc.
Address NI Orders To
GOSPEL TRUMPET eo., MOUNDSVI LEE, W. VA.
HEALED OF TOOTHACHE.
I once more greet you in the precious
name of Jesus. To- day finds me saved and
trusting in Jesus. Truly, it pays to trust
our bodies, as well as our souls, in the
hands of the great physician, who doeth
all things well. •
Last January I had toothache, and Bros.
Roberts and Swinburn prayed the prayer
of faith, and I was healed instantly. My
tooth has never hurt me since, although
Satan tried hard to make me doubt by
afflicting the gum. I knew the Lord had
done the work. Afterwards another tooth
ached dreadfully. I am quite sure it was
ulcerated at the root. I asked God to heal
it, and, praise the Lord, I was healed, for
which I give God the glory.
Dear suffering ones, it pays to trust the
Lord in little things as well as something
more serious. Before I ever heard of di-vine
healing, the Lord healed two of my
teeth. I was living to all the light I had.
The doctor gave me medicine for it, but it
grew worse until it seemed unbearable.
I arose from bed and asked the Lord to
heal my teeth, and they were healed in-stantly.
That was ten years ago. I am so
glad I have learned to trust in Jesus for
all things. Dear afflicted ones, pray on,
trust your case fully in the hands of Jesus.
He will heal you. I was also healed of
kidney trouble, but not instantly. I im-portuned
again and again, but was healed
instantly when I prayed the prayer of
faith. I could not turn in bed without
much pain, and never slept for nearly three
nights ; but when the Lord heard me I got
up singing, " Victory."
I write this hoping it will encourage
some discouraged one to trust Jesus. I
never use the least remedy. I believe if we
trust the Lord we should honor him by
trusting him for all things. Your sister
trusting in Jesus, Emma DeWesse.
Rocky Ford, Colo.
■ •• ■ ■ • ■ •• 1 ■ al•••••
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Oct. 6, 1904.
DIVINE HEALING.
" For. numberless demoniacs throughout
the whole world, and in your city, many of
our Christian men, exorcising them in the
name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified
under Pontius Pilate, have healed, and do
heal, rendering helpless and driving the
possessing devils out of the men, though
they could not be cured by all the other ex-orcists,
and those who used incantations
and drugs." Apol. II. Chap. 6.
Irenmus, bishop of Lyons in France, born
and educated under Polycarp, and who
flourished about 176 A. D. and died in 190
or 202 A. D., says:
" If, however, they maintain that the
Lord, too, performed such works simply in
appearance, we shall refer them to the
prophetical writings and prove from these
both that all things were thus predicted
regarding him, and did take place undoubt-edly,
and that he is the only Son of God.
Wherefore, also, those who are in truth his
disciples, receiving grace from him do in
his name perform miracles so as to pro-mote
the welfare of other men, according
to the gift which each one has received
from him. For some do certainly and tru-ly
drive out devils, so that those who have
been cleansed from evil spirits frequently
both believe in Christ and join themselves
to the church. Others have foreknowledge
of things to come ; they see visions and ut-ter
prophetic expressions. Others still,
heal the sick by laying their hands upon
them, and they are made whole. Yea,
moreover, as I have said, the dead even
have been raised up, and remained among
us for many years. And what shall I more
say? It is not possible to name the number
of the gifts which the church ( scattered),
throughout the whole world, has received
from God, in the name of Jesus Christ who
was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and
which she exerts day by day for the benefit
of the Gentiles, neither practising decep-tion
upon any, nor taking any reward from
them ( on account of such miraculous inter-positions).
For as she has received freely
from God, freely also does she minister ( to
others).
" If, therefore, the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ even now confers benefits, and
cures thoroughly and effectively all who
anywhere believe on him, but not that of
Simon, or Menander, or Garpocrates, or of
any other man whatever, it is manifest that
when he was made man, he held fellowship
with his own creation and did all things
through the power of God, according to the
will of the Father of all, as the prophets
had foretold." Adv. Hoer. Bk. II. Chap. 32.
Tertullian, a presbyter at Carthage ( A.
D. 160- 220), a learned and eloquent con-vert
from heathenism, says in his address
to Scapula, proconsul of Carthage:
" For the clerk of one of them who was
Liable to be thrown upon the ground by an
evil spirit was set free from his affliction;
as was also the relative of another, and the
little boy of a third. How many men of
rank ( to say nothing of common people)
have been delivered from devils, and healed
of diseases!" Adr. Scap. Ch. IV. A. D. 217.
Again, he says :
" Even Severus himself, the father of
A. ntonine, was graciously mindful of the
Christians ; for he sought out the Christian
Proculus, surnamed Torpacion, the steward
of Euhodias, and in gratitude for his once
having cured him by anointing, he kept
him in his palace till the day of his death."
Ibid.
Origen ( A. D, 185- 254) an able and
voluminous writer, commenting upon the
words, " the demonstration of the Spirit
and of power" ( 1 Cor. 2. 4), says:
" Of power because of the signs and won-ders
which we must believe to have been
performed, both on many other grounds,
and on this, that traces of them are still
preserved among those who regulate their
lives by the precepts of the gospel." Con-tra
Celsum, Bk. I., Chap. 2.
" And there are still preserved among
Christians traces of that Holy Spirit which
appeared in the form of a dove. They ex-pel
evil spirits, and perform many cures,
and foresee certain events according to the
will of the Logos." Ibid. Bk. I. Chap. 46.
" And the name of Jesus can still remove
distractions from the minds of men, and
expel demons, and also take away diseases."
Ibid. Bk. I. Chap. 67.
" And some give evidence of their hav-ing
received through this faith a marvelous
power by the cures which they perform, in-voking
no other name over those who need
their help, than that of the God of all
things and of Jesus ; along with a mention
of his history. For by these means we too
have seen many persons freed from griev-ous
calamities, and from distractions of
mind, and madness, and countless other ills
which could be cured neither by men nor
devils." Ibid. Bk. III. Chap. 24.
Dr. Christlieb says:
" With regard to the continuance of mira-cles
after the apostolic age, we have testi-monies,
not only from Tertullian and Ori-gen,
who tell us that many in their time
were convinced, against their will, of the
truths of Christianity by miraculous vi-sions,
but also, much later, from Theodorus
of Mopsuestia, who died in 428 A. D., a
man of wide reputation as- a preacher, pas-tor,
and author. He says : ' Many heathen
amongst us are being healed by Christians
from whatever sickness they have, so abun-dant
are miracles in our midst.' " Modern
Doubt. p. 321.
Such testimony might be multiplied, but
enough has been given to clearly prove the
falsity of the statement that the day of
miracles and healing closed with the death
of the apostles.
HEALED OF SORE EYES.
Dear Saints in Christ, I feel led by the
Spirit of the dear Lord to testify to divine
healing power. I had the sore eyes so bad
that I could not see my way. I called for
the elders and had prayer, and was healed
by the power of God. I ask an interest
in your prayers. Your saved sister,
Luveria Lewis.
Collinsville, Miss.
HEALED OF STAMMERING.
For years I had been a most inseterate
stammerer. The defect in my speach was
so obstinate that my case was given up as
hopeless by my friends. Some declared I
would stammer to my dying day, but
thank God, they were all wrong. I said,
" Dear Lord, my confidence is in thee; I
will place my case in thy hands." A body
of saints laid their hands on me and
prayed, when I felt the healing touch in
my tongue, and knew beyond a doubt, that
the Lord Jesus had healed me of stammer-ing.
Halleluiah! Jesus has power to-day
to heal. Oh, I praise him for a con-queror's
tread in my soul.
Eugene B. Willard.
Perne, Mass.
LET THE LORD MANAGE.
Eight years ago I was dreadfully af-flicted.
I was healed in answer to prayer.
The Lord has healed myself and family,
including five children, many times in an-swer
to prayer, which was always offered
in perfect faith.
About one year ago an old affliction re-turned.
I steadily rebuked it in Jesus'
name, but it seemed I could not get the vic-tory.
I was at last persuaded to use a
patent remedy. For a few days I seemed
to get better, but in my heart I was not
satisfied. I said, Lord, I do not want to
be healed at all unless you do the work.
I stopped using the medicine. It was then
it seemed the powers of hell were turned
loose on me. I could not do my work, and
my children were all too small to do it, and
help could not be hired at any price. There
were no saints within twenty miles of me.
We had hay harvest on hands and no one
to cook for the men. I was determined I
would not give up again. I just took it
to the Lord and gave up worrying. As
soon as I was willing to let the Lord man-age,
and not depend on myself, the work
was done. A neighbor sent me word one
of her girls could help me, another offered
to let one of her daughters come. The
Lord can make a way for us if we will
trust him. Will each one of God's saints
ask him, as they read this, that I may be
sanctified. Minnie Winkler.
Muscola, Kan.
76, 77. And since the day of Pentecost the
people have had • a knowledge of salvation
by the remission of sins, and also a knowl-eeddggee
of the destruction of the sin principle.
" Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanc-tify
the people with his own blood, suffered
without the gate." Heb. 13 : 12 " For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested)
that he might destroy the works of the
devil." 1 John 3 : S. " Knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with him, that
the body of sin might be destroyed, that
henceforth we should not serve sin." Rem
6: 6.
There is some difference in the knowl-edge
of present salvation and that of fu-ture.
" We know that we have passed from
death unto life because we love the breth-ren."
" If ye know that he is righteous,
ye know that every one that doeth right-eousness
is born of him." 1 John 2: 29.
This is present salvation, but does it not
imply that we shall be saved in the future
at all ? Here is the great misunderstand-ing.
Some claim that once saved, always
saved. We will notice a few passages
this class of people use to justify their po-sition.
The above scripture says that " every
one that doeth [ not did— present term]
righteousness is [ not was] born of God."
" Whosoever is [ not was] born of • God
Both not commit sin." 1 John 3: 9. " And
every man that hath [ not did have] this
hope in him purifieth [ not did purify]
himself, even as he is pure." 1 John 3: 3.
' . L. A. nd whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep [ not kept] his command-ments,
and do [ not did] those things that
are pleasing in his sight." 1 John 3: 22.
" Whosoever believeth in him [ not did be-lieve
in him] should not perish." John
3 16. " Whosoever drinketh [ not drank]
of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst.' John 4 : 14. " He that hear-eth
[ not has heard] my words, and believ-eth
on him that sent me [ not has be-lieved],
hath everlasting life." John 5:
24. " He that eateth [ not has eaten] of
this bread shall live forever." John 6: 58.
" My sheep hear [ nothaveheard] my voice,
and I know [ not knew] them, and they
follow [ not did follow] me." John 10:
27.
All the Scripture which they use to up-hold
their theory is in the present tense
and has reference to present salvation.
Present salvation is the only assurance of
salvation in the world to come. We can
be assured of this only as we abide in
Christ, walk in the light, keep his command-ments,
etc. Paul . says, " Let as many of
us as be perfect [ perfect salvation], be
thus minded," that we might attain unto
the perfection of the resurrection of the
dead, or the future salvation.
Man alone can separate himself from
this blessed attainment. But as his salva-tion
is hinged on his free moral agency,
he should be careful to work it out with
fear and trembling, taking heed lest he
fall ; and that he be not spewed out" ( Rev.
3. 16), and be " taken away from the true
vine" ( John 15: 2), or " blotted out" ( Ex.
32 : 33), " or separated." Isa. 59: 2. " I
will therefore put you in remembrance,
though ye once knew this, how that the
Lord, having saved the people out of the
land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them
that believed not." Jude 5.
EASY OF ENTREATY.
SOME POSTAPOSTOIIC TESTIMONY.
BY O. P. TASTER.
IT is a common thing to hear people say
that the day of miracles and healing closed
with the death of the apostles. Some may
wilfully say so, who know better; but there
are others who honestly believe the state-ment
to be true and who have not had any
clear teaching to counteract their life- time
education in the school where such state-ments
are given out as truth. Therefore
they look with suspicion on the doctrine
of divine healing, and through not inform-ing
themselves, they class it with Christian
Science, mind healing, and other counter-feit
systems.
In this day of religious freedom and op-portunity
for research and examination,
every one blessed with intelligence should
examine carefully and prayerfully what he
has been taught to believe, and ask himself,
Why do I believe this?
Some people are Presbyterians for the
same reason that others are Methodists and
others Roman Catholics, simply because
their parents were ; and it is easier to re-main
as they find themselves than to start
out and clear what to them is new ground,
or diligently and with constant earnest
prayer to " seek out of the book of the Lord,
and read " ( Isa. 34: 16), like those Berean
Jews who searched the Scriptures daily to
see whether the things they heard were
so or not.
Even though it were not true that thou-sands
upon thousands of Christians in our
own time have proved and do continue to
prove that Jesus is still the great physi-cian,
there is abundant evidence from early
Christian history and writings that the
days of miracles and healings by direct di-vine
power through faith in Jesus' name
did not cease when the apostles died. They
well- nigh ceased, however, when, in the
course of time, true believers were almost
swept from the earth by the dragon ( pa-ganism)
and the beast ( Roman Catholi-cism).
Those were then the days of " lying
wonders," which wonders still deceive
those whose names are not written in the
Lamb's book of life.
" Witnesses who are above suspicion leave
no room for doubt that the miraculous pow-ers
of the apostolic age continued to oper-ate
at least into the third century." — Dr.
G. Uhlhorn ( Conflict of Christianity with
Heathenism. p. 169). The following are
but a few of the many testimonies that
might be given from the writings of what
are called the Christian Fathers— a group
of early writers living subsequent to the
death of the apostles. John, the last of
the Twelve, died a natural death about A.
D. 100.
Justin Martyr, a pious, converted philos-opher,
who lived from A. D. 105- 165, says :
PRESENT AND FUTURE SALVATION.
BY T. S. DENNIS.
PRESENT salvation is a knowledge of ac-tual
transgressions remitted, and may in-cl
ude - a knowledge of the destruction of
the sin principle also. The new birth is
life, and there can no life exist without a
knowledge of it by the one made alive; and
this is manifested by his knowing that his
sins are forgiven. It was declared of John
the Baptist that he should " go before the
face of the Lord to prepare his ways; to
give knowledge of salvation to his people
I by the remission of their sins." Luke 1:
BY W. M. POTTER.
" BEHOLD, how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity ! It is like the precious ointment
upon the head, that ran down upon the
beard, even Aaron's beard: that went
down to the skirts of his garments ; as
the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that
descended upon the mountains of Zion.
for there the Lord commanded the bless-ing,
even life forevermore." We all know
the blessed fruits of real Bible unity, but
how to maintain the same is just as im-portant
now as ever. We must have the
spirit of easy entreaty. " The lot causeth
contentions to cease, and parteth between
the mighty. A brother offended is hard-er
to be won than a strong city: and their
contentions are like the bars of a castle."
Prov. 18 : 19. How true! May the
Lord grant us that humility and entreaty
that craves the watch- care and admoni-tions
of the saints who have possessed the
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VOLUME XXIV. MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 6 , 1904.
We have seen, we have heard of, the thousands
that glitter,
Roused safe and secure in the Capitol fair:
If no one had suffered, if no one had labored,
Amid the rough rocks it were still waiting there.
But more precious by far than the wealth of
the nations,
In the sight of the Lord, is the worth of one
soul:
Be glad if he calls you to dig out the jewels;
They shall shine in his glory while ages shall
roll.
AMONG the graces and characteristics
that go to make up a beautiful Christian
life is one called sincerity. The life is not
perfect and complete nor all it should be
where this grace is wanting. God is pure
and he will judge us by his own standard of
purity. Unless we are sincere in all our acts
of life we come below the true standard
of purity. Ta be sincere is to be free from
guile, false pretense, or hypocrisy. A sin-cere
life is one that is all that it pretends
to be. If you make the least attempt to
appear to be something more than you
really are, you are not sincere, neither are
you free from guile. This characteristic
was very beautiful in the life of Christ.
He made no attempt ' to appear to be more
than he was. He was sincere. He was free
from guile. We as Christians take upon
us the character of Christ. Since this is
true we do not look for guilelessness in the
life of Jesus only. It was said of Nathan-eel,
by the Savior, that in him there was
nu guile. His life was pure. Sincerity
marked his every act and thought. He
was sincere in prayer, and it is only the
sincere prayer that avails with God.
Sincere love is love not in word or tongue
only, but in deed and in truth. You pro-fess
to love God. If you love him in deed
and in truth, sincerity will characterize
yl ur every act in his service. Your con-duct
will prove the sincerity of your love.
To love God is to love all that he loves and
to hate all that he hates. It is to be in-terested
in everything in which he is in-terested.
God is deeply concerned about the
salvation of souls. Believest thou this?
TI you love God you also are concerned
about the Salvation of souls. Your prayers
for the salvation of the lost will not be dead
and formal, but there will be earnest plead-ing;
there will be deep, agonizing prayer
to God. You will feel in your soul like
saying, " My God, I can not let you go ex-cept
you save some soul." If you are sin-cere
in your love toward God your labors
for him will not be performed from the
mere standpoint of duty, but you will be
delighted in all you do.
Now I want to ask the professed Chris-tian
reader to look closely as to the nature
of your feelings when called upon to per-form
certain duties. You need not be in
a hurry, but take plenty of time and look
the matter over carefully. Now concerning
the duty of giving. If your love toward
God and man is sincere you will give of
your means most cheerfully. If it goes
a little hard for you to give your love is
not sincere. Your love is mixed somewhat
with guile. If there is no alloy in your
love you give all you can and labor zeal-ously
that you might have to give and
that with perfect delight. This is true
and you need not say it is not true, neith-er
can you treat it indifferently.
If you are going out to- Morrow to cut
cord- wood for your own personal gain, you
will arise early in the morning and get to
your work early and work with an energy
because you are getting large wages per
cord. On the next day you are to donate
a day's wood cutting to a poor widow. You
do not arise near so early as you did the
day before, and you go about your chores
more slowly and sit at the breakfast table
and talk awhile with the family, then take
up your ax carelessly and slowly saunter
across the field. If that is the way it is
with you, your love toward God is far from
being sincere. There is a strong, coarse
thread of self- love running through the
cloth, and when you are called upon to
prove the sincerity of your love those
threads of self- love will shrink and pull
the whole cloth out of shape. 0 beloved,
prove the sincerity of your love by taking
as much interest in doing for others as you
do for yourself. " Let love be without dis-simulation."
Sometimes it seems to you that you can
hardly bear up any longer under the
trials you have and long for more grace.
You feel your need of more grace. Would
you like to have lived in the days of the
apostle Paul and had him to pray for you?
Here is an invocation given by this apos-tle,
" Grace be with all them that love our
Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity." Eph.
6: 24. This prayer of the apostle is ring-ing
in the ears of God to this day in your
behalf if your love is sincere. But if
your love is not sincere this is the prayer
he has offered for you, " If any man love
not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be
Anathema [ accursed]." 1 Cor. 6: 22. One
of these prayers is being answered in your
behalf to- day, and may Gbd help you to
fully understand these things.
Your conduct in life is to be in such sin-cerity
as God is in all his work. When
we look at the worlds above us and at
our own world and nature round about
we can not fail to note the sincerity of
God in his works. When we stop to con-sider
the work of God for our pleasure and
good we are amazed at the sincerity of his
love toward us. He has caused so many
varieties of things to grow to meet the de-sires
of man's taste and the demands of
his system. For his delight and benefit
he has made the many different colors.
Man determines the nature and quality of
many a thing by its color. You need sleep,
so God has prepared you a. night in which
God has given it. You need water; God
has given this also, and just in the right
chemical proportion to meet the demands
of your system. You need air to breathe ;
God has provided this in his love and wis-dom.
If the air contained more oxygen
and less nitrogen we could not live in it,
and if it contained less oxygen and more
nitrogen we could not live in it. But it
is just rightly proportioned to meet our
needs. This is wonderful. So in every-thing
God has made, if we stop to con-sider
how wonderfully adapted is all na-ture
to the needs of man, we can not fail
to note the sincerity of God in all his
works.
Now we in all our work should be just
as sincere as God was in his. All - we do
should be done purely for a benefit to some
one and to God's glory. I hope you will
fully comprehend this. When we are thus
sincere we rejoice because our conscience
is clear. The apostle said, " Our rejoicing
ig this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not
with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of
God, we have had our conduct in the
world." 2 Cor. 1: 12. Let all your con-duct
be in godly sincerity, and you will
have cause for rejoicing. C. E. 0.
to have our lives so controlled by his
words and precepts that they are
actually governed by his will or words?
In other words, the Word is to our souls
the life- giving portion. It is the life or sap
that causes the branch to live or grow.
The more the sap flows through the
branch from the vine, the more abundant
and beautiful will be the fruit, or, if the
sap ceases to flow the branch will die and
the husbandman will cut it off to the
good of the tree. This is why many die.
They fail to eat. Dear one, watch your
spiritual appetite.
Again ( 1 Cor. 11 : 27- 30), " Wherefore
whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink
this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be
guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
But let a man so examine himself and so
let him eat of that bread, and drink of that
cup. For he that eateth and drinketh un-worthily,
eateth and drinketh damnation to
himself, not discerning the Lord's body."
In the Lord's body ( church) they eat
the food and drink the blood worthily.
Then why is it there are so many weakly
and sickly among us, and so many sleep ?
It is because they have not partaken of
the cup (" the new testament in my blood")
worthily. They have not examined themsel-ves
by the Word, therefore are not able to
discern the Lord's body or to be a part of it.
They become weak and sickly and fall a-sleep
for lack of honest searching of the
Scriptures.
I hold it our duty and privilege while
undergoing severe trials and fiery fur-naces
to maintain calm and peaceful hearts
and countenances. I do not believe Daniel
ill the lion's den or the Hebrew children
it, the furnace were writhing and crying
and groaning. But if a test or trial threat-ens,
sadness or indifference or distress of
any kind, the question is, " Where is my
strength, my endurance— my life? Ah, yes;
I need more food. My soul is not strong
enough. Where is Jesus ( the Word) 1" Do
not think a hurried prayer will suffice.
God does not want a complaint or murmur-ing
although it comes in prayer form. It
is soul- food you need, and God has already
supplied it.
If you have failed to use it and are
caught fainting in the time of trial, what
do you expect God to do ? only thing
is to go and eat.
Often our souls are not fat because we
do or have done all the talking ourselves,
and not listened enough to Jesus ( Word).
He wants us to commune with him and
heed him, and get lonesome when we do
not hear him. When we , neglect his Word,
we neglect him. When we slight his Word,
we slight him. In fact, it is for a lack of the
love of truth that many are allowed to be-lieve
a lie and be damned. " My word shall
not pass away." Mat. 24: 3. " The words
that I speak are life." John 6: 63.
THE WORD.
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BY MABEL COX PORTER.
" AND his name is called The Word
God." Rev. 19: 13. When we read
Genesis, first chapter, and see the creations
caused simply by the Word or utterance
of God, then we can slightly comprehend
what it means when John said, " And the
Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us." Oh, the power in the Word— and
the Word is so free. Why are we not
strong in his power? It is because we do
not " eat that which is good" and let
our souls delight themselves in fatness.
Isa. 55: 2. Why is it that so many who are
professing to love Jesus are so dead and
fcrmal? It is because they profess a lie.
They do not even blow Jesus, let alone
loving him. Professors, " why call ye me,
Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
say?" Luke 6: 45, 46. Jesus does not
want us to love his person or worship
his flesh and morals, but he wants us to
love ( obey) and honor his commands,
precepts, promises, and so on. If we
profess to love Jesus and do not love God's
truth we are deceived, for it would be
an impossibility.
Reader, do you love Jesus? Do you love
to search the Scriptures and meditate on
them and hold communion with him ' 1 Do
we love to humble ourselves in order to
accept his teachings? Dear ones, " eat
ye that which is good, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness." What are you
eating? Are you hungry for the " Morning
News" or for " Russell's ideas on the Mil-lennium"
or somebody else's ideas, or are
you really hungry to know God's ideas?
Let your soul have its regular meals. Let it
have good appetizers. Be sure and give
your soul its breakfast before you feed
your mind on the worldly or temporal
things.
When my husband is absent from me I
always am more anxious to get his letters
than any other. It is because I love him.
Do you love Jesus ( the Word)? If Jesus
is the Word ( practically speaking), what
does he mean when he says, " Abide in me
and I in you"? Then he says ( John
15: 4), " As the branch can not bear fruit
of itself except it abide in the vine ; no
more can ye, except ye abide in me."
to sleep. You need light in which to labor; What is it to abide in Jesus? Is it not
THE GOLD DIGGERS.
BY ANNIE M. ABBY.
Where the valley lies trustfully up to the foothills,
And the snow- covered mountains look on grim
and cold,
The river came rushing from wild, rocky canyons,
And brought as its treasure deposits of gold.
Wealth hidden from sight mid the rough rocks
and gravel,
Waited age after age for the miners to come;
For there in the dark it could brighten no palace,
Nor bestow on the beggar the comforts of home.
They came, tho', at last, over deserts and moun-tains;
• They suffered with hunger, with thirst, heat,
and cold,
And stealthily lurked the dark foe at the foun-tains:
They risked all to go to the fields of gold.
Did they find it was easy to gather the precious/
Were there no discouragementsl nought to re-tard/
They toiled long and steady, with patience en-during:
The trace of their work tells to all, " It was
hard."
It was hard, but they joyed in the fruits of their
labor,
And jealously guarded their rich golden store:
With zeal unabating they faithfully labored
Till the harvest was past, and the summer was
o'er.
SINCERITY.
COVETOUSNESS.
BY E. M. ZINN.
IN these last days men and women are
in a hurry to make money and will not
stop to consider how good the Lord has
been to them. They will lay plans how to
swindle some one out of something. Now,
dear ones, this is covetousness ( Eph. 5: 3),
and God's Word condemns it, and the one
that is guilty of it has no inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and of God.
Heb. 13: 5 reads, " Let your conversation
be without covetousness ; and be content
with such things as ye have : for he bath
said, I will never leave thee nor forsake
thee." Dear souls, we should appreciate
this precious promise more than we do,
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Oct. 6, 1904.
TO GROW AND INCREASE AND ABOUND.
Giving is' a Christian grt e for which
Paul praises the saints at Philippi, " Not
because I desire a gift; but I desire fruit
that may abound to your account." Phil.
4: 17. That ye might be filled with the
knowledge of his will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding; that ye might
walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,
being fruitful in every good work, and
increasing in the knowledge of God;
strengthened with all might, according to
his glorious power, unto all patience and
long- suffering with joyfulness ; giving
thanks unto the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the ' inheritance
of the saints of light." Col. 1 : 9- 12.
Praise God for such promises ! " And the
apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our
faith." Luke 17: 5. " We are bound to
thank Gad always for you, brethren, as it
is meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the charity of every one
of you all toward each other aboundeth."
2 Thes. 1: 3. " Rooted and built up in him,
and established in the faith, as ye have
been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving." Col. 2: 7. " Now the God
of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing. that ye may abound in hope,
through the power of the Holy Ghost.
And I myself also am persuaded of you,
my brethren, that ye also are full of good-ness,
filled with all knowledge, able also to
admonish one another." Rom. 15 : 13, 14.
" Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know that your labor is not in vain in
the Lord." 1 Cor. 15 : 58. •
All Bible readers know what became of
the man that failed to use his talent, and
the blessing pronounced upon those who
put their talents to good use. In these
perilous times it is impossible to discern
truth from error without the aid of the
blessed Holy Spirit; for Jesus says, " With-out
me ye can do nothing."
In Paul's letter to the Hebrews, he says,
" For when for the time ye ought to be
teachers, ye have need that one teach you
again which be the first principles of the
oracles of God; and are become such as
have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
For every one that uses milk is unskil-ful
in the word of righteousness; for he
is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to
them that are of full age, even those who
by reason of use have their senses excerised
to discern both good and evil." Heb. 5: 12-
14. It is evident that Paul wanted them to
grow, and tells them that by reason of use
their senses are excerised to discern good
and evil. Paul says also that we are not
ignorant of Satan's devices. 2 Con 2: 11.
So, in order to grow we must read God's
Word, and prayerfully follow all the plain
teachings, and daily ask for light, and
walk in it as we get it, or just measure
up to all the Word of God. " But speaking
the truth in love, may grow up into him
in all things, which is the head, even
Christ." Eph. 4: 15. " In whom all the
building fitly framed together groweth un-to
an holy temple in the Lord." Eph. 2: 21.
Praise God for such a beautiful building,
built on Jesus Christ and fitly framed, and
grown together in him, and all the build-ing
material polished and shining with the
beautiful Christian graces he bestows upon
them.
Dear ones, let us look diligently unto
ourselves that we Lose none of these things.
" According as his divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life
and godliness, through the knowledge of
him that hath called us to glory and
virtue: whereby are given unto us exceed-ing
great and precious promises; that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that
is in the world through lust. And besides
this, giving all diligence, add to your faith,
virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to
knowledge, temperance; and to temperance,
patience; and to patience, godliness ; and
to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness, charity. For if these be
in you, and abound, they make you that
ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful
in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But he that lacketh these things is blind,
and can not see afar off, and hath forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give dili-gence
to make your calling and election
sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall
never fall : for so an entrance shall be min-istered
unto you abundantly into the ever-lasting
kingdom of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be
negligent to put you always in remem-brance
of these things, though you know
them, and be established in the present
truth." 2 Pet. 1: 3- 12. Amen.
PRAYER.
" HEAR YE TTfl WORD OF THE LORD."
( Ezek. 13 : 2)
BY JENNIE C. RUTTY.
MANY dear souls have felt grieved when
the Word of God was taught clearly re-garding
the teachers and preachers who are
not teaching and preaching the pure Word
of God. They thought they should be more
tenderly dealt with, that only the pleasant
things of the gospel should be taught, some-thing
that would encourage these popular
teachers to seek for a real experience.
While the Word of God speaks clearly
and positively about the people of God be-ing
filled with love to - God, to one another,
In sinners, and to enemies, it also tells them
to " speak the truth in love." For some
time the first three verses of the thirteenth
chapter of Ezekiel have been deeply im-pressed
upon my heart and mind. They
came as a revelation to me in regard to our
duty to false teachers. It had seemed near-ly
useless to talk to the denominational
preachers regarding the present truth, but
this scripture made the matter appear very
differently. The first thought is that God
spake to Ezekiel and told him just what to
do with the false teachers of that time.
The next thought is that these teachers
were to be recognized by the prophet. The
next consideration is then, are we to know
them now ? Rom. 16 : 17 makes this very
plain when it says, " Mark them which
cause divisions and offenses contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned and avoid
them. For they that are such serve not our
Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly;
and by good words and fair speeches de-ceive
the hearts of the simple."
Having these two points firmly settled in
our hearts : first, that God tells us just how
to treat false teachers; second, that we are
to know them, then surely we can know our
duty and have grace to do it. Here we have
it very clearly in the second verse of our
text. " Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say
thou unto them that prophesy out of their
own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord."
These words are very forcible. The false
preachers are to be preached against, they,
are to be told by the true ministers that
they should " hear the word of the Lord"
Are we doing this as frilly as God would
have us ? Do we go to them in the love of
Jesus and show them the mistake they are
making in teaching the things their own
hearts have conceived instead of God's holy
Word? Have we had the boldness to de-clare
to them that their teaching of denoin-inationalisin
is unscriptural, and show
them by the Word the oneness of God's
people? Have we on entering a new place
tried to win the souls of the ministry to
the truth, or have we utterly ignored their
presence and gone on our way indifferent
to their condition ? Have we said to them,
" Hear ye the Word of the Lord; thus saith
the Lord God, Woe to the, foolish prophets
that follow their own spirit, and have seen
nothing"? There are so many ways to tell
it in love, and yet it be the wonderful burn-ing
truth of God. It is time the truth
is bolder in its opposition to that which re-jects
it. There will be greater blessing upon
the saints as they move out and meet the
persecution that comes from this source:
Several years ago while in the work in
Topeka, Mrs. Woodworth held a meeting in
another part of town. I had heard her
there nine years before and realized an aw-ful
power that had to be resisted lest it
should draw us in, as an eddy does those
who are near it in a stream of water. I
felt impressed to go to the second meeting
to again investigate it. Mrs. Woodworth
preached, and during the sermon my soul
was graciously stirred against the spirit
manifested. After the preaching there was
an altar service, and a woman fell in a
trance and a man shouted until most of the
large congregation left . their seats and
crowded forward around the altar. It was
all so repulsive to the spirit within me that
I felt it ought to be reproved in some way.
So I kept praying God to make duty plain.
It came to me that I ought to reprove her,
but how ? I could not press through the
crowd, neither did I think it should be
done publicly. In waiting on God, it was
soon made clear.
She started from the pulpit down
through the vacated chairs and my prayer
was, " Dear Lord, if it is your will for me
to speak to her, send her to me." Several
times she offered to go in a different di-rection,
but she was finally right in front
of me. I arose and offered my hand say-ir
" Sister, there is a difference between
popular religion and Bible salvation." She
replied, " Yes, but this is not popular re-ligion."
I said, " The Word says, ' Try the
spirits, for many false prophets are gone
out into the world.' " She replied, " Yes,
have you been here through the service,
and have you done this ?" I answered,
" In the fear of God I have." She said,
" Then what is your decision." My an-swer
was, " God wants me to tell you in
his fear and love that this is not- the Spir-it
and power of God." She turned away
saying in harshest tones, " More of the
iScnpeiwrit.,, and power of God than you ever
Oh, how God did bless me ! How he
filled my soul with glory ! I had nearly for-gotten
this experience when first getting an
inspiration from the text, then it came as
a verification of its efficacy, of its applica-tion
to us and the present. May God bless
it to others, remembering - God's great love
to the erring.
THE LORD LOVES YOU.
BY ELLA MARBURGER.
" Fos, the Father himself loveth you,
because ye have loved me, and have be-lieved
that I came out from God." John
16 : 27. Dear discouraged soul, did you
ever stop to think that Father really loves
" you" and exercises a personal care over
you? Yea, he says that even " the very
hairs of your head are all numbered."
" Like as a father pitieth his children, so
the Lord pitieth them that fear him." Do
you fear the Lord?
The Lord loved you even while you were
yet a sinner. How much more now, when
you are seeking with your whole heart to
know and do his will and walk pleasing in
his sight ? " But God commendeth his love
toward - tis, in that while we were yet sin-
BY MARY S. A. ANDERSON.
FOR the glory of God we will consider
this subject in the light of his Word. We
all understand what is meant by growth.
Should we see a child that had failed to
grow, we would know at once there was
something wrong ; the same is true in re-gard
to the spiritual life. Ther is never
an effect without a cause, and to fail to
grow spiritually results from some cause.
In 1 Cor. 3 : 1, 2, Paul tells the Corinthian
church that he could not speak unto them
" as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even
as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you
with milk and not with meat ; for hitherto
ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now
are ye able." And in the next verse he
tells them of the cause of their failure to
grow : " For ye are yet carnal; for whereas
there is among you envying, and strife,
and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk
as men?" We see it was the works of the
flesh that kept them in a weak condition.
We are commanded to grow. " Where-fore
[ for which reason] laying aside all
malice, and all guile, and all hypocrisies,
and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born
babes, desire the sincere milk of the
word, that ye may grow thereby." 1 Pet.
2: 1, 2. We must lay aside these works of
the flesh as new- born babes, and desire the
sincere milk of the Word, that we may
grow thereby. We also must have proper
food in order to grow, and the proper
food is found in the Word of God. Being
fed on carnal desires only retards growth
and weakens spirituality. We must grow
in the different graces of the Spirit, just
as each member of the child's natural body
receives growth.
Notice the different graces in which we
are to grow, increase, and abound. " But
grow in grace, and in the knowledge of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." 2 Pet.
3 : 18. " And God is able to make all grace
abound towards you; that ye, always hav-ing
all sufficiency in all things, may abound
to every good work." 2 Cor. 9: 8. Praise
God for abounding grace! " And this I
pray, that your love may abound yet more
and more in knowledge and in all judg-ment;
that ye may approve things that
are excellent; that ye m'y be sincere and
without offense till the day of Christ; be-ing
filled with the fruits of righteousness,
which are by Jesus Christ ; unto the glory
and praise of God." Phil. s 9- 11.
for truly it means much to be saved from
such evil doings.
Now there are many ways of being cov-etous.
We do not need to steal a horse to
be covetous, but covetousness proceeds out
from the heart. Mark 7: 22, 23. Here Mark
classes covetousness with the very worst
sins that can be committed.
Let us examine ourselves, and see wheth-er
we have anything in our hearts that
God's Word condemns as covetousness ; if
we have may God help us to get saved from
it. In a greatanany cases the preachers are
as covetous as the members, for - they will
set a salary and make the members of their
sect pay it, or they will not preach. May
God get a hold on such and shake them up
on this line with real Bible conviction.
God's eternal Word says not to keep com-pany
with such persons ( 1 Cor. 5 : 11),
much less be guilty of the same sins our-selves.
I would to God that more people
would examine themselves by God's look-ing-
glass ( Bible), and see their condition
as God sees them. Surely they would for-sake
their wicked, covetous ways.
" This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. For men shall
be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy." 2 Tim.
3: 1, 2. We know we are living in perilous
tirnes,' so let us watch unto prayer and ex-pose
the tricks of Satan and lend a helping
hand to our fallen comrades.
BY EDITH ASHENFELTER.
GOD in his Word has given many rules
to guide us in our prayer and devotion to
him that we may be filled with his Spirit,
and not have only a forniof worship. Let
us notice a few commands and promises
on the subject of prayer. " Pray without
ceasing." 1 Thes. 5 : 17. " Continue in
prayer, and watch in the same with thanks-giving."
Col. 4: 2. " Praying always with
all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
and watching thereunto with all persever-ance
and supplication for all saints." Eph.
6 : 18.
Though our prayers never cease we must
not use vain repititions as do the heathen.
" When ye pray, use not vain repititions, as
the heathen do: for they think that they
shall be heard for their Much speaking."
Mat. 6: 7. Our prayers should be clothed
in simple, easily- understood language, ex-pressing
the desire of the heart and not
the eloquence of the tongue. God has given
us enough to pray for without wasting time
on high- sounding, meaningless phrases. Let
us see to it that We pray to God from earn-est
hearts, and ever keep free from all taint
of that abominable practise of " delivering
prayers to an audience."
" I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
giving of thanks, be made for all men; for
kings, and for all that are in authority;
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and honesty." 1 Tim. 2:
12. " Pray for them which despitefully use
you, and persecute you." Mat. 5: 44. " Con-fess
your. faults one to another, and pray
one for another, that ye may be healed."
Jas. 5: 16. " Finally, brethren, pray for
us, that the word of the Lord may have
free course, and be glorified, even as it
is with you: and that we may be delivered
from unreasonable and wicked men." 2
Thes. 3: 1, 2. " Be careful for nothing;
but in everything by prayer and supplica-tion
with thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God." Phil. 4: 6. " Let
us be diligent in prayer, for - God is pleased
with such sacrifice, and has said, ' Whatso-ever
ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall
receive.' Mat. 21: 22. Read Mat. 6: 5, 6 ;
1 Tim. 2: 8.
Oct. 6, 1904.
ners, Christ died for us. Much more then,
being now justified by his blood, we shall
be saved from the wrath to come." Rom.
5: 8, 9.
How can you be discouraged and give
Tip the battle when the Lord has in so
many ways proven his love to you? First,
he proved his love by giving " his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believ-dh
in him should not perish but have ever-fisting
life." No doubt you have read and
heard this text repeated time after time.
But did you ever make it personal? It was
the love God has for you that caused him
to give his only begotten Son to suffer
death on the cruel cross, that you might
Might be redeemed from sin. The poet
has truly said,
" Such love can not be fathomed,
' Tis like the boundless sea."
` He spared not his own Son, but deliv-ered
him up for us all,' yousiicluded.
Then, he has given so many precious
promises to his children, in his Word, and
remember, they are yea and amen in him.
When you read them, make them personal.
Apply them to yourself. They are yours.
' The Lord did not give them to fill up
: space only. No, dear one. He gave them
: for your encouragement. " I will instruct
thee and teach thee in the way which thou
: shalt gee I will guide thee with mine eye."
Then cease your worrying and fretting,
; but trust the Lord, and he will guide you.
, he will not permit you to go astray, or
allow you to be deceived if in simple trust-ing
faith you cling to him. What if the
way seems sometimes dark and you can not
feel the presence of your God? Has he
not proven faithful in the past? Even
when you were yet in your sins he cared
for you. Think bow he called after you
when you had no desire to serve him.
oimuld he be less careful for you now ?
to indeed. He still loves you. And while
at times his presence seems far away, and
you feel depressed and discouraged, remem-ber
that the Lord does not change with
your feelings, but is ever the same. " I
am the Lord, I change not" Praise his
dear name!
FEET- WASHING.
- THE100wing article by W. B. Godbey,
which recegtly appeared in the Revivalist,
is an invention of Satan calculated to de-ceive.
" ' Please . explain in God's Revivalist,
make it plain so it can be understood,
whether feet- washing is a commandment,
obligatory on the saints, as so many claim
we do not live up to God's command-ments.'
" John 13: 14- 20 is the only Case we have.
Meanwhile Jesus girded with the towel is
going ahead washing his disciples' feet.
` Then he comes to Simon Peter, and he
says to him, Lord, Lord, do you wash my
feet? Jesus responded and said: What I
( do thou knowest not now, but mayest know
Hereafter. Peter says to him, You can
never wash my feet. Jesus responded to
him, If I shall not wash thee, thou host
no part with me. Simon Peter says to
him, Lord, Lord, not only wash my feet,
but my hands and my head.' Here we have
the only case of inspired record, setting
forth the transaction of foot- washing. The
very fact that Jesus said to Peter, What I
do thou knowest not now, but mayest know
herafter,' forever sweeps away the literal-ism
of the transaction, and establishes its
symbolism beyond a possibility of a doubt
or cavil. If it had been literal, Peter did
know what Jesus was doing, for he saw him
washing their feet.
" The simple solution of the whole mat-ter
was that Jesus taught them a great les-son
in humility in Christian grace, which
Peter never understood until after he re-ceived
the fiery baptism at Pentecost, which
burnt up all of his pride and brought him
down to spend the balance of his life in the
bottom of the valley of humiliation, where
iehved a hero and died a martyr.
" In Palestine, the people generally go
Barefoot, - unless they travel on a journey;
then they use sandals, which they always
: leave at the door when entering the house.
Pursuant to the courtesy of hospitality, the
servant meets the guest at the door with . a
Pan of water and a towel, takes off _ Ins.
Bandals and washes the feet. If in this
climate of cold and rain you would obey
f
that commandment, instead of washing the
eet, which is not here an act of hospital-ity,
YOU would simply, in Ethiopian dialect,
give your guest a ' good shine,' as blacking
the shoes is really an act of hospitable
courtesy, while washing the feet is not.
We are to be ' all things to all men.'
':,, Rom the simple fact of its intrinsical
.160 ce we should not oppose it. We
we liberty in all non- essentials. The
THE TIME AND PLACE.
By reference to Mat. 26: 17- 34; Mark 14:
12- 30 ; Luke 22: 7- 23, 31- 34, it will be seen
that Peter and John prepared the paschal
supper in " a large upper room furnished."
Also in the evening he sat down with the
Twelve, and they ate the passover. During
the eating of it he pointed out Judas who
should betray him, and t del Peter how he
would deny him. In John 13 it is recorded
that while Jesus was sitting at the table
( compare verses 2- 4, 12) he pointed out
Judas in the same language that Matthew,
Mark, and Luke record it. Ver. 21- 26;
Luke 22: 21- 23; Mark 14: 18- 21; Mat. 26 :
21- 25. He also told Peter how he would
deny him. Ver. 36- 38. So the supper in
John 13 must be the same as the passover
mentioned in the Other Gospels.
In John's narrative, he designed es-pecially
to supply what was omitted by the
other evangelists. As they had fully de-scribed
the institution of the communion
Supper, he omits it. By reading all four
together, we have a clear account of what
took place in that upper room.
Feet- washing then was instituted by
Jesus Christ in the same room, in the same
night, OD the same occasion as he instituted
the communion Supper. All this was but
a few hours before his etrayal, and, in
fact, but a little while before his eruci-his
earthly ministry. Strange that at this
solemn time he would indulge in non- es-sentials.
The fact that Jesus washed his
disciples' feet in the upper room at the
same time and place that he broke the
bread, forever demolishes Mr. Godbey's
plea that it was the old custom for cleanli-ness.
Had the old custom been observed,
they would have washed before entering
the house, especially before entering the
large, furnished upper room. Jesus gave
them to understand that the object was not
cleanliness. " Ye are clean." The custom
of the Jews was to bathe twice before en-tering
the paschal room. So it is evident
that the apostles had been to the bath be-fore
entering the furnished room. This
fact destroys the modern plea of cleanli-ness.
NOT TEE OLD CUSTOM.
We are ready to admit that in oriental
countries it was customary for people to
wash their feet for cleanliness. But the
same custom continues among all cleanly
people. in all nations. What has that to
do with the feet- washing instituted and
commanded by Christ in that room. before
his apprehension? No more than bathing
has to do with baptism, or eating supper
has to do with the Lord's Supper. Jesus
said to Peter, " - What I do thou knowest
not now." Peter knew all about the Jew-ish
custom. But the thing Jesus was there
performing was a new thing to him. Again
I would ask, Would Jesus make an old Jew-ish
custom a test of fellowship between him
and a beloved apostle who had forsaken all
to fellow him? Surely not. Yet Jesus
said ti Peter, " If I wash thee not, thou
hast no part with me." What Jesus was
there performing was of such vital impor-tance,
and of such a sacred nature that had
Peter refused he would have been cut off
from relationship with his Master. It would
be well for such men as Godbey and other
truth perverters to meditate here a while.
Again, would Paul make an old Jewish
custom a condition upon which widows
were to be taken into the number for sup-port
of the church, or, as some suppose,
into the number of deaconesses ? Hardly.
Yet one of the conditions was, " If she
have washed the saints' feet." 1 Tim. 5:
9, 10.
THE SANDAL PLEA REFUTED.
Mr., Godbey refers to the fact that san-dals
were worn in oriental countries. At
certain times of the year this was true, but
the night Jesus washed his disciples' feet
it was cold— so cold that Peter sat by a
fire to warm himself. Luke 22: 55, 56; Mark
14: 67. Rather a cold time to be barefoot-ed
or simply wearing sandals. But it is a
fact that they also wore shoes. It was not
an impossibility to get leather, for we read
of " one Simon a tanner by the seaside."
But, had Jesus washed his disciples' feet
because they wore sandals, he would have
done so at the door before entering the
house, especially before entering the upper
furnished room.
NOT A - MOSIAC RITE.
Mr. Godbey fails to cite one text where
the feet- washing Jesus performed was a
rite of Moses' law, nor can he. There is
not a sentence in all the book of the law
that intimates such a thing. There was a
feet- washing performed by the priests at
the door of the tabernacle. They washed
their hands and feet at the laver before en-tering
the sanctuary; but this had nothing
to do with that which Jesus instituted, no
more than Jewish washings has to do with
New Testament baptism.
NOT A SYMBOL.
till Pentecost to make known to Peter and
the rest what he had done ? No indeed.
" So after he had washed their feet, and
had taken his garments, and was set down
again, he said unto them, Know ye what I
have done to you? Ye call me Master and
Lord : and ye say well ; for so I am. If I
then, your Lord and Master, have washed
your feet; ye also ought to wash one an-other's
feet. For I have given you an ex-ample,
that ye should do as I have done
to you." John 13: 12- 15. This nails the
matter fast. The words of Christ forever
establish the fact that feet- washing was in-stituted
by our Lord and Master to be
observed by his disciples, Here he made
known to them just what he had done. He
washed their feet and thus set them the
example to do likewise. So he instructed
them that they ought and should wash one
another's feet.
Who will deny that Jesus literally
washed his disciples' feet? Now he turns
to them and says, " If I then, your Lord
and Master, have washed your feet ; ye also
ought to wash one another's feet." How
does Mr. Godbey know that Jesus insti-tuted
a literal ordinance, the communion
Supper to be literally observed?
Why not argue that Jesus did break
literal bread and give them literal wine,
but this was only a symbol of his body and
blood, and Jesus said, " Eat my flesh and
drink my blood;" namely, " the living
bread which came down from heaven,
which if a man eat thereof, he shall live
forever." No doubt Mr, Godbey would an-swer,
" Jesus broke literal bread, and gave
them the literal fruit of the vine, and then
said to them, ' This do in remembrance of
me.' Also Paul refers to its observance
in his letter to the Corinthians, chap. 11."
Amen. And the sameis true of feet- washing.
Jesus poured literal water into a basin and
literally washed his disciples' feet, in the
same room, and on the same occasion, that
he broke bread. After he washed their
feet, he turned to them all and said, " Ye
also ought to wash one another's feet. For
I have given you an example." And ill
the eleventh chapter of 1 Corinthians, Paul
says, " Now I praise you, brethren, that
ye remember me in all things, and keep the
ordinances, as I delivered them to you."
Ver. 2. Paul had delivered " ordinances"
( in the plural) to the church, and praised
them for keeping " them." These could be
none other than feet- washing and the Lord's
Supper. And in his first letter to Timo-thy
( 5: 9, 10) he mentions the " washing
of the saints' feet." So with all Mr. God-bey
' s effort, feet- washing is still a part of
the gospel, and we the servants of our Lord
and Master, in obedience to his command
" wash one another's feet."
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THERE are to- day many good recipe
books in circulation. Many valuable things
are to be gleaned from such books. There
are good recipes for most all kinds of cook-ing;
for removing grease spots from woolen
goods, for cleaning silk, for silver- plated
knives and forks, for destroying insects,
etc. Sometimes these recipes are sold at
quite a high price. I read in a book to- day
a good recipe for moths, which I will give
freely to the reader because I received it
freely, and the greatest of teachers has
said, " Freely ye have received, freely
give." Here it is : " Lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven where moth nor rust
doth not corrupt." Mat. 6 : 20. Go through
your wardrobe and bring out unused blank-ets,
coats, shawls, cloaks, quilts, etc., and
give to the poor or to the Faith Homes.
This is a much better way to keep out
moths than the use of camphor balls. It
is also a good way to keep weevil out of
your wheat. To use all the money and meat
you can spare in this way is an excellent
preventative of robbery. Lay up your
blankets and shawls and coats and cloaks
and quilts and' wheat and meat and money
and all else you may have. Lay them up
in heaven by giving where they are needed,
and you will not be troubled with moths
nor rust nor thieves. Try it. C. E. 0.
" For Zion's sake will I not hold my
peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not
rest, until the righteousness thereof go
forth as brightness, and the salvation there-of
as a lamp that burneth. And the Gen-tiles
shall see the righteousness, and all
kings thy glory."
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Christian Jews practised the Mosaic rites
until they were driven out of Jerusalem
by the Roman armies forty years after our
Savior ascended to heaven.
cised Timothy long
Paul circura-after
had become a
dead letter superseded b y
it
the Christian bap-tism.
In essentials, he redemption of
the world by the vicarious atonement of
Christ, the regeneration and sanctification
tion and experimental
of the heart by the Holyr lhGdhost, the recep-indwelling
Comforter, on e
aalli zta
bes
tion of the
realities witnessed by the Holy Ghost, w
rious
can make no compromise, and Ciare not une-der
any circumstances lower the standard."
The writer first endeavors to blind
the mind of the reader by making it appear
that Jesus was only teaching them " a great
lesson in humility in Christian grace, which
Peter never understood until after he re-ceived
the fiery baptism at Pentecost."
Next, he tries to associate it with the an-cient
custom of washing feet for cleanli-ness,
" an act of hospitality." Third, he
tries to confound it with " Mosaic rites"
and classes it one of the " non- essentials."
So according to his logic, Christ simply
followed the ancient custom of washing
feet, and performed an act of hospitality,
washed his disciples' feet for cleanliness.
At the same time he performed a Mosaic
rite, and in it taught his disciples a great
lesson of humility. The same was a non-essential.
So teaches Mr. Godbey, promi-nent
among the false holiness movements
of to- day. But what saith the Word?
" Jesus knowing that the Father had giv-en
all things into his hands, and that he was
come from ' God, and went to God; he riseth
from supper, and laid aside his garments;
and took a towel, and girded himself. After
that he poureth water into a bason, and be-gan
to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe
them with the towel wherewith he was
girded. Then eometh he to Simon Peter :
and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou
wash my feet ? Jesus answered and said
unto him, What I do thou knowest not now ;
but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter saith
unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not,
thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter
saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only,
but also my hands and my head. Jesus
saith to him, He that is washed need not
save to wash his feet, but is clean every
whit: and ye are clean, but not all. For
he knew who should betray him; therefore
said he, Ye are not all clean. So after he
had washed their feet, and had taken his
garments, and was set down again, he said
unto them, Know ye what I have done to
you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye
say well ; for so I am. If I then, your Lord
and Master, have washed your feet; ye also
ought to wash one another's feet. For I
have given you an example, that ye should
do as I have done to you. Verily, verily,
I say unto you, The servant is not greater
than his lord; neither he that is sent greater
than he that sent him. If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them." John
13 : 3- 17.
I have here given the full account
of the institution of feet- washing. We will
first consider
fixion. It was the most solemn time in allhe should know hereafter. But did he wait
Mr. Godbey is very bold in the assertion
that Jesus did not institute a literal ordi-nance
to be observed. He asserts that when
Jesus said to Peter, " What I do thou know-est
not now, but thou shalt know here-after"
he forever swept away the literal-ism
of the transaction, and established its
symbolism beyond question or cavil. Then
he asserts that Peter never understood its
meaning until he received the fiery baptism
on Pentecost. Here Mr. Godbey perverts
the facts and speaks a : vision of his own
head. Let us investigate the truth as it is.
What Jesus said to Peter utterly refutes
Mr. ' Godbey's plea for the Jewish custom
or Mosaic rites. Peter fully understood
these, but what Jesus was there instituting,
Peter at this time did not understand.
Jesus while washing Peter's feet told him
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Are you antisectarian?
There are people who are antisectarian
and others who are non- sectarian.
The two words are nearly alike, but
their meanings are vastly different.
To be antiseetarian means to be against
all, sectarianism, while to be non- sectarian
is to be on a compromise with all sects.
Which side are you on?
Are you an the compromise a little with
the sects? It is easier to compromise a
little, you know, for the sake of worldly
and sectarian friendship.
the name of the church I belong to. It is
not embarassing to me ; I am not ashamed
of his truth. If we stand in defense of
the truth, the truth will defend us. Praise
God! J. E. P.
The enemy's forces are at work now to
bring about this reformation hindrances
on the line of divine healing as never be-fore.
Sometime ago the height of opposi-tion
was a doctrinal point as to whether
or not healing is in the atonement; but at
the present time a special effort is being
made to get people to teach or practise the
use of the natural forces, the perversion of
which is termed magnetic healing or hyp-notism,
or the use of human magnetism.
Hypnotism being brought into use, and
same who have been useful on the line of
divine healing have undertaken to inves-tigate
these things and have fallen a prey to
the power of the enemy on these lines. And
when praying for the sick, just at the time
when faith ought to be centered in the
Lord, these other things present themselves
upmost in the mind and prove to be a
hindrance to the healing. Many are tam-pering
with these tools of Satan to the
hurt of their spiritual development of fu-ture
usefulness for the Lard.
OFFICE ITEMS.
We thank the Lord for - a well equipped
office for publishing the gospel— the light
of truth in this evening time of the world.
True zeal for God is accompanied with a
disposition to have the best of facilities
for the Lord's work.
The different departments of the work
are about all running full capacity, and to
a visitor the- whole institution would ap-pear
to throb with industry and activity.
Arrangements are being made to facili-tate
the distribution of second class mail
matter by states. A large circular table
with hole in the center will accomodate the
wrapping of papers, on second floor, from
which they will pass through a chute to
the first floor below, where they will be
distributed.
been better than ever before, with an in-crease
in numbers, as well as an increase
of the power and grace of God. The chil-dren
of God in Babylon are beginning to
see that this reformation is of God, and
many are coming home to Zion. I doubt
not the time is near for a mightier in-crease
in the work among our people.
The publishing work is also on the ad-vance
for God and lost souls. The breth-ren
in different places have been stirred
to take hold of this work more, as they are
finding out it is of God, and that we are
eolaborers with him. Several hundred
dollars have been promised to the work,
and we expect to put in a bookbindery and
other improvements this fall. We have
been much encouraged by seeing some
effects of the literature in the ingathering
of souls, and we expect to see more in the
near future. Brethren, let us not get
weary in scattering the seed in this way,
eternity alone will tell the good done
through literature.
We ask an interest in the earnest pray-ers
of the saints everywhere. We need
your prayers very much. Pray also that
God will raise up more workers among
our people, as calls are coming in from
every direction, and the laborers are too
few to fill them. Any one desiring litera-ture
to scatter among the Scandinavian
people can address us thus : Evangeli
Basun Pub. Co., St. Paul Park, Mimi
Your brother and servant in defense of
the gospel, Thomas Nelson.
GENERAL NOTES AND
NEWS.
Over ten thousand copies of the Shin-ing
Light are sent out each week. This is
a Sunday- school and children's paper that
ought to be in every home.
The amount sent in for free literature
last week was $ 149.73, which was more than
thirty dollars less than the week before.
$ 7.726.85 worth await the sending, and
will go forth as means are sent in for that
purpose. We are receiving more calls from
the workers on this line than we are able
to supply at present.
come upon people in their wickedness by-the
sudden coming of the Lord and end of
time. " Be ye therefore ready."
Mrs. Woodworth, the trance evangelist
of a few years ago, who made quite a stir
in St. Louis, Southern Indiana, Kentucky,
and Illinois, is again on the stage of action,
after a silence of about fifteen years. It is
reported that since that time she has been
divorced from her husband, who has since
died, and she has remarried and now ap-pears
as Mrs. Etter. She is of the Wine-orennarian
faith, who sometimes call them-selves
Church of God. Years ago many
of those of her audience would fall under
the power of her influence and sometimes
for hours lie stiffened under the hypnotic
influence. While in this condition they
claimed to see beautiful visions of the heav-enly
realms. The Bible tells us that Satan
sometimes makes his appearance as an an-gel
of light. If he can get people to fall
under such power and make them believe
it is the power of God he has accomplished
his purpose.
_ A Protestant minister at Oorfa, Turkey
in Asia, recently informed us that a Ger-man
lady missionary in that country had
presented him with a copy of the Secret
of Salvation, Kingdom of GO, and other
books from our Office, which he was read-ing
with much interest and profit. He
asks for prayers for himself and the people
of that country. The literature that has
been sent forth abundantly during the past
few months is yielding fruit unto the Lord,
and the pages of sacred truths have encir-cled
the globe and openings are rapidly be-ing
made for the gospel in the lands be-yond
the sea.
A copy of an English edition of a paper
called " The Victory of Faith" edited by
Bro. A. D. Khan, 39-- 4 Sukea's St., Cal-cutta,
India, has been received at our Office.
Price 75 cents a year. They will likely pub-lish
the same in some of the native lan-guages.
" The Light from the Orient" is
a paper published by Bro. and Sister
Robert Jarvis, Lahore, India, principally
in behalf of the orphanage and famine
work. Price 50 cents a year.
In that way one's religious foes are few-er
and we are not considered so sectish,
narrow, prejudiced, and such like.
We occasionally find people who are
nearer non- sectarian than antisectarian,
though they claim freedom from sect bond-age.
The gospel of Christ is antisectarian
throughout from Matthew to Revelation,
and no one can build a sect or sustain one,
or join one on authority of the gospel.
Dearly beloved saints, we must keep our-selves
free from every taint of sectarianism.
We can not count ourselves of them, nor
count them with us until they accept the
truth and walk out of confusion. God
commands us to " come out from among
them and be separate . . . and touch not
the unclean thing" consequently we
should not attend their meetings.
There may be circumstances when God
would get glory through our attending a
sect meeting, but only in such cases where
they have never heard the whole truth, then
we might testify of our freedom through
Christ. Just to attend their meetings to
see friends or relatives is no excuse. " Let
them return to you, but return not thou
unto them."
Let them oppose you and cast your name
out as evil if they choose, but you see to
keeping God's commandments. Do not al-low
the devil to scare you by telling you
that they will think hard of you if you
do not go among them occasionally. Show
your loyalty to God, be definite and radi-cal,
and stand clear, and on a solid basis ;
be antisectarian through and through, and
do not be afraid that somebody will find
you out.
I am always glad to give my testimony
for Jesus, and to inform honest inquirers
concerning my faith in Christ, and to teach
them of this glorious liberty, to tell them
The system of steam heating is being
inspected and renewed where necessary in
the Office building.
We are in receipt of another manu-script
for a book on which we have already
begun work. It is written by Bro. Orr, and
entitled " Food for the Lambs."
The different Sunday- school classes,
which are instructed in the Home every
Sunday, appear to be prospering. Some
of the adult classes are studying in the
Old Testament.
- There are four meetings per week in the
chapel in which requests for prayer are
mentioned. These are on Sunday at 10: 30
A. M. and Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-day
evenings. An average of one hundred
or more requests per week are observed.
The Trumpet Family is in receipt of a
nice donation, consisting of fifteen bags
of potatoes, from a brother at Venango, Pa.
THE SCANDINAVIAN WORK.
To the Saints and Readers of the Gospel
Trumpet, Greeting in Jesus' precious name
It has been some time since we have writ-ten
through the Trumpet, not because we
have been idle, but our life has been filled
with so much work that very little time
can be found for writing. I am glad to
report victory in my soul this morning,
and I can say, Jesus is still my Savior,
sanctifier, and keeper. Praise God! For
some time I have been very poorly in body,
not using proper wisdom in caring for it,
but, thanks be to God, I can truly say this
morning that he has touched my body with
his healing power, and I am gaining in
strength daily. I do praise God for the
prayers of the saints on this line, as well
as all other lines.
Regarding the Scandinavian work, will
say that we have no evil report to bring
you; the Lord is working among this peo-ple.
The camp- meetings this sum/ ter have
Sentence was recently suspended in the
case of Henry A. Hoffman, which for some
time has been pending in the courts at
Butler, Pa. This is to the effect that the
case has been dropped, or thrown out of
court. Further particulars will be given
later.
Sister Josephine McCrie is in Canada
during her few weeks' absence from the
Office. After visiting a n comber of congre-gations
in Canada and bidding farewell to
parents and friends, she will return to the
Office, and in company with Sister Edith
Ashenfelter expects to sail for India about
Dec. 1st. Let us do our part in praying for
them and providing means to purchase
their tickets and send them, as the same
has not yet been provided.
The Moundsville, W. Va., assembly is to
be held Nov. 20- 27. A good meeting is ex-pected.
Every lover of the truth invited.
Come filled with the Holy Spirit or with
the expectation of being filled.
Advices from London state that there
are thousands of homeless people in the
streets, many of whom walk the streets all
night, while others, penniless, lie down on
doorsteps, boxes, or in the gutter, in the
cold, damp air. Only those who witness the
scenes can realize the suffering and dis-couraging
feelings of such people. On ac-count
of the dense population the author-ities
find it difficult to find temporary lodg-ing
places for them. As winter advances
there is sure to be an increase of suffering.
Mount Vesuvius, the great volcano of
Italy, has for some time been in a state of
eruption. The recent increased activity
has given the people of the city of Naples
and vicinity no little concern regarding
their safety. The lava has been thrown
from the burning crater in such immense
heaps that a railway station and a portion
of the inclined railway have been de-stroyed.
It is liable to break forth with
terrible disastrous eruption at any moment.
In like manner sudden destruction may
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
Ques. 1. If the receiving of the Holy
Ghost and baptizing with the Holy Ghost
is sanctification, were not the disciples sanc-tified
more than once ? If not, please ex-plain
John 20 : 22; Acts 2 : 1- 4; Acts 13:
52 ; Acts 4. 31. E. P.
2. Does Isa. 35: 10 have reference to the
people of God coming out of the sects and
returning to Zion the true church in the
evening time ?
3. Does Jer. 17: 13 mean that the Chris-tian
people had departed from the Lord
when they had their names written in the
earth or class- books of men?
4. Does Jer. 5 : 27 mean that as a cage is
full of birds so are sectarian denomina-tions
full of deceived people?
5. Do the spoilers in Jer. 51 : 53 mean
God's holy ministers now in the evening
light preaching against Babylon?
6. Please explain Hab. 1 14, 15 ; Jer.
16 : 16; Isa. 10 : 27.
Ans. 1. Sanctification and the baptism
with the Holy Ghost are the same expe-rience.
Sanctification is of a twofold na-ture—
cleansing and spirit- filling. The tes-timony
of Peter, Acts 15: 8, 9, tells us of
this twofold nature of the Pentecostal ex-perience.
In John 20: 22 Jesus breathed
on them and said, " Receive ye the Holy
Ghost." In the following verse he said,
" Whose soever sins ye remit, they are re-mitted
unto them; and whose soever sins
ye retain, they are retained." This evi-dently
was not the Pentecostal experience,
for in Luke and Acts we see that he com-manded
them to tarry at Jerusalem until
the endowment of power, which was re-ceived
at Pentecost. Acts 4 : 31 does not
signify that those who were at Pentecost
were refilled with the Holy Ghost. There
was a multitude of them gathered at this
place, and they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost. Acts 13: 52 describes a sim-lar
experience, not that those who had
been at Pentecost were refilled, but the dis-ciples
were filled with joy and with the
Holy Ghost. We have nothing to indicate
that any of the one hundred and twenty
Oct. 6, 1904.
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lost their sanctification. If they had, then,
of course, there would be the necessity of
a renewal of the experience.
2. Isa. 35: 10 reads, " And the ransomed
of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their
heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
yes, this certainly describes the church in
the evening light. This whole chapter is a
prophecy of the gospel day.
3. Jer. 17 : 13 reads, " 0 Lord, the hope
of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
ashamed, and they that depart from ma
shall be written in the earth, because they
have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of
living waters."
This truly describes a departing from
God and his ways, and nothing could more
perfectly fit the condition of Babylon,
where people have been persuaded to have
their names written on earthly records
called the church record. God has only one
record for the names of his people, and that
is not written on earth. Those who have
their names written on such records on
earth truly depart from God to this ex-tent,
because it is contrary to the ways of
God. Every one of the people of God who
have done this will feel ashamed when
the light of Zion shines upon them, and
will immediately have their names removed
from all earthly records.
4. Jer. 5: 27 reads, " As a cage is full of
birds, so are their houses full of deceit:
therefore they are become great, and waxen
rich."
Yes,' it certainly is a true picture of
Babylon. It is full of deceived souls.
Read Rev. 18: 2.
5. Jar. 51: 52 reads, " Though Baby-lon
should mount up to heaven, and
though she should fortify the height of her
strength, yet from me shall spoilers come
unto her, saith the Lord." As literal Bab-ylon
became proud and haughty, and boast-ed
of her great power and wealth, and was
brought low by the armies of other nations;
so the God of heaven has raised up his
people who have been held in bondage in
spiritual Babylon to cry out against her;
and in this sense the ministers of God in
Zion are spoilers ; for the messages from
Zion call out all of the people of God in
captivity and leave Babylon a spiritual des-olation.
G. Flab. 1: 14, 15 reads, " And makest
men as the fishes of the sea, as the creep-ing
things, that have no ruler over them .
They take up all of them with the angle,
they catch them in their net, and gather
them in their drag; therefore they rejoice
and are glad." The 14th verse belongs to
the 12th and 13th verses which are a se-ries
of questions asked by the prophet. The
15th verse describes the work of Babylon's
taking captive the people of Israel. This
is a true type of spiritual Babylon, which
truly is as a net and drag net to catch souls
like men catch fishes.
Jer. 16: 16 reads, " Behold, I will send
for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they
shall fish them; and after will I send for
many hunters, and they shall hunt them
from every mountain, and from every hill,
and out of the holes of the rocks."
This is prophetical of the manner in
which God gathered his people from literal
Babylon and brought them back to their
own home, Zion; but it has a deeper sig-nification
in a spiritual sense; for it is a
perfect description of the gathering of the
saints from spiritual Babylon. God sends
out fishers and hunters, his ministers and
helpers, who fish and hunt out every one
of the saints who had been scattered. Moun-tains
represent large sects; hills, small
sects; holes of the' rocks, secret societies.
All these are brought out of these places
of deception and confusion, and brought
home to Zion, the church of God. The
fishers mentioned in the first part of the
verse represent the apostles and ministers
in the morning of the gospel day. Liter-ally
some were fishers, and their work was
to be " fishers of men." The gospel work
was compared to fishing. They fished out
all the true people of God from Jewish
bondage and they became free in Christ.
This corresponds with the gospel work
then; but the text reads, " And after will
I send for many hunters." This corre-sponds
with the gospel work in the even-ing
time.
Isaiah 10: 27 reads: " And it shall come
to pass in that day, that his burden shall
be taken away from off thy shoulder, and
his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke
shall be destroyed because of the anoint-ing."
This also is a beautiful description of
deliverance from bondage of the people of
God from Babylon. The Assyrian men-tioned
in verse 24 means the people of
Babylon who were to oppress the people
of Zion, but God promised deliverance.
This was fulfilled in the return from the
captivity. But the true spiritual meaning
of. which the literal was but the type is
the glorious return of the saints of God
in these last days from spiritual Babylon
( the sects) to Zion ( the church). Every
ecclesiastical burden is taken away from
off our shoulder, and every yoke is taken
from off our neck and the yoke truly is
destroyed because of the anointing. It is
this anointing which destroys the sectarian
yokes. No division can exist between two
anointed souls. " For both he that sancti-fieth
and they who are sanctified are all
of one, for which cause he is not ashamed
to call them brethren" Heb. 2: 11. " But
the anointing which ye have received of
him abideth in you, and ye need not that
any man teach you; but as the same anoint-ing
teacheth you of all things, and is truth,
and is no lie, and even as it bath taught
you, ye shall abide in him." 1 John 2: 27.
This, of course, is the grace of sancti-fication,
which so completely destroys
every element of division out of our hearts
that no yoke of division can ever fit upon
our neck; and, best of all, the anointing
utterly destroyes the yoke. There is much
professed sanctification in the various
forms and creeds of Babylon to- day that
pleads for division, and upholds her; but
all such is only the abominable counter-feit
of Satan. Some assumed holiness evan-gelists
preach, " Stay in your church"; but
God says, " Come out of her, my people."
Bible sanctification brings us into perfect
harmony with God and all of his Word,
and completely out of harmony with all
of Babylon; for the yoke is destroyed be-cause
of the anointing. No sanctified soul
can therefore ever be yoked up in Babylon,
neither can such a soul have sympathy for
Babylon, for the yoke is destroyed.
J. W. B. •
NEWS FROM THE FIELD.
PROGRESS OF THE BUJILDING WORK.
It has been quite a while since we have
reported the work of building the " Faith
Home" and meeting- house in Chicago.
God has been so good and has granted us
many favors in many ways— some remark-able
answers to prayer. The cooperation
of the saints in general has been pleasing
to God, and a source of much thanksgiving.
To know that his Spirit has directed, and
that our effort is backed by thousands of
fervent prayers, and the tender sympathy
of so many warm hearts; would utterly
make us ashamed to complain in the least,
or chafe under the severest test. God
would not permit us to bear such great
responsibility without test or trial, lest we
would conclude that " our arm had gotten
us the victory." Some may have imagined
" flowery beds of ease" for the work and
workers in Chicago this year; but thanks
be to God for the willing hearts and conse-crated
hands who have toiled so faithfully
both in the Home and on the buildings.
Praise be to God for the promise that our
reward shall be according to our works.
Plastering was completed on the Home
about one week ago, excepting under
stairs in basement. The meeting- house wall
is up to the first joist and we are now
ready to swing them.
We hope to be able to move into the
Home by the last of next month ( Oct.),
and to get the wall of the meeting- house
up and roof on before freezing weather.
The Home will contain twenty- two rooms
above the basement, also two bath- rooms
and one wash- room. The meeting- house will
be 46x67 ft., divided into suitable parts
for the convenience of both - the local work
and general assemblies.
By means of paid subscriptions, dona-tions,
and loans, we have thus far been able
to pay every bill as we go. However, the
time is now at hand for the settlement in
full for the contracts, as the work is com-pleted
on the Home, and the purchase of
material for the meeting- house, and the
paying off of short loans, etc. These all
combine to increase our present responsi-bility
to the highest pitch during the build-ing
period.
My heart is impressed with the thought
that God wants the body of Christ in
general to know the situation, that each
one may share with us in this matter im-derstandingly.
How can you pray intel-ligently
for God to supply our need unless
you comprehend something of the same?
True, God has talked to some by dreams
and visions about this matter and their
duty, etc. It is not in my power to dictate
how much you shall bear of this responsi-bility
to the throne of grace, nor with
what fervency you shall implore help in
this our time of need, neither as to the
amount you give to the supply of the same.
I felt like stating the ease and requesting
your united prayers and general coopera-tion,
and leave the matter with God to
impress and dictate to your hearts as will
please him most. When God has had his
way in directing your hearts and hands
toward this work, and has accomplished his
purpose, then let no one reproach our God
nor blame his servants by saying, " Too
much time, too much labor, or too much
means, have been spent. on the buildings
in Chicago." If any one gives more time,
labor, or means than God directs, certainly
they are doing too much; for who hath re-quired
it at their hand? If God hath spok-en,
let men and angels keep silent. Job
said, ' When the Almighty speaks, I will
put my hand on my mouth.'
AN ENCOURAGING LETTER.
Some days ago I received the following
letter from a brother in Michigan.
" Dear Brother in Christ: A few nights
ago I had a dream concerning the work an
the Lord's buildings in Chicago. I dreamed
of seeing the people working with all their
might. Things were moving on nicely, no
loafing or murmuring could be seen or
heard. Just then the thought came to my
mind of the little I had done or was doing.
This made me feel ashamed of myself. The
next morning I decided to profit by the
dream by sending ten dollars to be used
for the building purpose, or wherever
needed. You also have our prayers that
God will abundantly bless your labor of
love for him. Yours in him, w. P."
TABLE BEING SUPPLIED.
Fruit and vegetables have been sent in
abundantly, all we could use, cans all filled,
and borrowed more and filled them. Let
all the saints rejoice with us and praise his
name together. A shipping bill just at hand
for about a ton of provisions from Nor-walk
and Ableman, Wis.
We have been unable to answer the
many letters and acknowledge receipt of
things sent in. Please accept this as an
acknowledgement for the same and also
our hearty thanks for the kindness shown.
Do not forget to pray God to furnish the
needed finances on time.
A- friend to the cause has donated the
sum of $ 2,000.00 to the building work al-ready.
Is not this an encouragement to the
saints to trust God and move out for him ?
Your humble servant and brother depend-ing
on him, Geo. L. Cole.
7300 Stewart Ave. -
Note. Laborers are coming and going, but
the supply has been good during this
month. Come, if God sends you. Much
work to be done yet before cold weather.
G. L. C.
Oleta, Okla.
To the Saints, Greeting: We are praising
God for the victory in Jesus our Savior.
The meeting at Bristow was a precious
meeting to many dear souls. The pres-ence
of the Lord caused much rejoicing
among the saints. Some came to the altar
for pardon, some for sanctification, and
some for healing. The saints were truly
knit together in love.
From here we went to the Dixie meet-ing,
which had been called in; but owing
to the shortness of the notice the brethren
thought it wisdom to go ahead with the
meeting, which was done in the name of
Jesus. The baser sort made some threats
of disturbance, but we committed the meet-ing
to God's protection, and, remembering
that his promises could not fail, we were
not afraid to trust him.. Consequently,
we had the best of order from the begin-ning
to the close of the meeting. Many
obstacles, which had been in the way, were
removed in answer to prayer. Two were
saved, and others benefited. Two were
baptized. The meeting closed with an or-dinance
service, Bros. Smith, Miller, and
Sister Drake were used of the Lord in the
declaration of his truth.
' We then went to Emory, Tex., where we
found some souls hungering for the Word
of God, and anxious to hear the whole
truth. A few were saved, and some pro-fessed
sanctification. Two were hurried
with Christ in baptism. The saints were
encouraged to press the battle on. Bro.
York is faithfully holding up the Word in
these parts, but he needs help. Pray for him.
The next meeting was ten miles south
of Athens, Tex., where the Lord gave real
victory in the teaching of his Word, expos-ing
sin and seetism. Many saw the evils of
sectism, and took a decided stand against
it, and rejoiced to declare their freedom.
Bro. J. M. Cooper, who had been a minis-ter
in the Baptist sect, and who was lead
out of the same by the reading of the . Gos-pel
Trumpet, was baptized. There is an
opening here for an assembly meeting in
the future.
We then went to the Cabot meeting,
which was somewhat hindered by the peo-ple
being in the midst of cotton- picking.
Nevertheless God gave us a good meeting,
and souls were won to the truth. One
professed sanctification, and one brother
who was not clear in his experience was
enabled to get clear before the Lord. There
were many requests for prayer at the close
of the meeting. Any of God's ministers
and workers passing through here will
find a welcome at Bro. John Wright's or
Bro. Spraggler's. Eastern and southeast-ern
Texas is a neglected field, and they are
calling loudly for the pure gospel. Who
will heed the call? Yours in Him,
0. W. Carey.
FROM MOTHER SMITH, TROMBLEY, OHIO.
Once more I greet all the Trumpet read-ers
and the dearly beloved saints of God
in the precious name of Jesus, with a testi-mony
to the glory of God. I am still saved
to the uttermost, with sweeping victory in
my soul over all the works of the world,
the flesh, and the devil. Oh, Halleluiah!
He also keeps this body, which is his tem-ple,
in perfect health and strength to do
quite a little work. He helps me keep this
body clean on the outside and stripped for
the race, following Jesus alone. I just let
Jesus keep his temple in the inside, as it
pleases him. And oh, he is such a good
housekeeper. He never leaves nor for-sakes.
He is a present help in time of
need. When I need help I just tell him
all about it. Oh, it is so sweet to tell it
to Jesus alone. My soul is ever feasting
cn the riches of his grace.
I am not at ease in Zion, although I
did not labor in meeting last winter. The
Lord has helped me to help needy souls
by writing letters. I received many re-quests
for prayer.
Well, I went to the Moundsville meeting
in June in company with Bro. and Sister
Miller. There was much labor to be done
with many dear souls that needed help
from God. Some had to have devils cast
out before they could receive help from
God. Some were healed, some came for
healing, and their faith failed. Some
came deceived by the anti- Christ sect holi-ness
spirit, all conformed to the world,
decked with the devil's styles and fashions
of the world, professing to be saved and
sanctified, and claiming to be missionary
workers. Oh, it is indeed heartrending to
see how the devil is deceiving the people
by a shoddy profession of holiness.
I also went to the Claypool, Ind., camp-meeting,
which was a success. Many souls
received help from the Lord, sinners were
convicted by the preaching of the Word,
and saved from their sins; and believers
were sanctified, and backsliders reclaimed.
Many poor souls were so stupefied by the
opiates of the devil. They were just like
a sleepy person trying to wake up with
their minds all confused and blurred, so
much so that they did not know their
whereabouts. They could not tell what
they came to the altar for, and they were
unable to realize their condition until the
devil's power was rebuked in the name of
Jesus. I never saw so many sleepy, drow-sy,
careless, unconcerned spirits hang over
the people. The Word went forth by the
power of God, and the Holy Ghost sent
the truth wherever it could find a lodging
place. Praise God! The meeting was a
glorious success; sinners were saved, believ-ers
sanctified, devils east out by the power
cf God, and the sick healed. One woman
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Oct. 6, 1904,
was given up to die with umsomption, by
three doctors. The Lord wonderfully
healed and raised her up, and many more
were healed, for which we give all the
praise and glory to God. He alone is wor-thy.
I also praise God for what he did for
me all through the meeting. Truly, he
made me a wonder and marvel to many
by blessing me, and giving me strength in
soul and body. He was holding me up by
his Spirit and power to labor with souls
from early morning till late, some nights
till midnight. One day Mother Byrum and
: Sister Noah Byrom hid me away a few
hours above the book store where people
could not find me, to give me a little rest.
God bless them. Dear Mother O'Brien was
rooming with me in my room, which was
, the Lord's sanctuary. We would be up
( every morning at five o'clock, and nearly
( every morning some one was waiting to
( come in to be prayed for and labored with.
One morning there were five in the hall
waiting for the door to be opened to re-ceive
help from the Lord.
Oh, let me give a shout of warning to
every Trumpet reader to be ready at all
times, for the time is coming when the
door will be shut forevermore. Oh, what
will it profit us if we have our lamps filled
with oil and let the oil of salvation leak
out till we have nothing left but the lamp
without the oil, which is just an empty pro-fession,
and then wait to get to a camp-meeting?
' Be ye also ready, for ye know
not the day nor the hour when the Son of
man cometh.' Oh, how I do praise God
that he is no respecter of persons, and he
is everywhere present, and his ears are ever
open unto the cries of all men and at all
times, to every one that needs and desires
; help.
many souls as he can in this reformation.
Oh, let us be wise and walk as children of
light, " for the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine; but after-their
own lusts they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears; and they
shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables. But of
the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no
need that I write unto you; for yourselves
know perfectly that the day of the Lord
cometh as a thief in the night." " But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness that that day
should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all
the children of light, and the children of
the day. . . . Therefore let us not sleep as
do others; but let us watch and be sober."
" Behold, I will make thee a new sharp
threshing instrument having teeth." ' When
ye see these signs come to pass, know ye
the end is nigh, even at the door. As it
was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in
the coming of Christ.' Oh, let us be
ready.
they have paid full fare to the Portland
assembly meeting of the church of God , as
we expect to make arrangements to return
for one- third fare. All parties should bring
plenty of bedding including bedtick for
straw. Board will be provided at reason.
able rates. For further information ad-dress
Bro. Jas. Bamford or myself, at 430
Hawthorne, Ave., Portland, Ure. aa. T.
Melrose, 0. Assembly meeting. In the
saints' meeting- house, three miles south,
and one and one- half east of Melrose,
Oct. 13- 23. A ll invited. M inisterial help
needed. For information address me at
uakwoud, U. G. M. Campueli.
Fresno, Cal. Camp- meeting. Oct 14-
t i. game place as last year, in park, cor-ner
I) and Fresno streets. J. L. Chaffin.
Now we all know that every reformation
did not live long till it was run into a sect.
And now the devil has all the sects and
their holiness where they give him no
trouble; and now he, with all hell, is let
loose at this last and glorious reformation.
Thank God, this will not be run into a sect.
Praise God, this is come to stay till Jesus
comes. But the devil is destroying just as
Mount Olivet, Ky., Sept. 27.
To all the Saints, Greeting: We prais
God for his mercies, blessings, and grac
which he is bestowing upon us from day
to day. Jesus saves, sanctifies, and hea
all our diseases. The hand of the Lor
. has been upon us for good in all the me e
ings in which we have labored this sum
men Since the Moundsville camp- meetin
we have been constantly in the work. Hel
a. few meetings in Ohio; then the Jelle
sonville, Ky., camp- meeting.. This w
said to be the most successful meeting eve
held upon these grounds. From the ye
commencement the altar was filled with
earnest seekers; some for pardon, an
others for entire sanctification. The heal
ing services were very precious, and som
of the most definite cases we ever wit
nessed. This encouraged the workers wh
were present, and all felt they would with
r
more courage than ever before press th
battle against Satan, sin, and disease. Per
feet harmony prevailed among the minis
try. Those present were Bros. Carte
Ford, Watts, A. J. Kilpatrick, and th
writer. A young sister from Olympia di
a good work among the children and your
people.
From this meeting Bro. K. and I re
turned to our homes at Payne, 0., wher
we stopped a few days, then went to th
Claypool camp- meeting. Here we found
a host of happy children of God enjoying
a glorious feast in the Lord.
On Wednesday Bros. Kilpatrick and
Ebel, Sister Krauft, and I left this
meeting for the Ableman, Wis., camp- meet-ng.
Here we met Bro. A. S. Kriebel, who
ad the tabernacle pitched and all things
eady for meeting. This was a real success
n the settling down and establishing of
he saints, as reported by Bro. Ebel. At
he close of this meeting Bro. Kilpatrick
nd myself returned to Payne, 0., where
ur home camp- meeting had been com-enced
some five days before. This meet-ing
was not as largely attended as at other
times, nevertheless a few souls were saved,
nd some real definite healing by the power
f God, notwithstanding some hindrances
hat existed.
After a few days at home, attending to
orae necessary duties, Bro. Kilpatrick and
came to this place and commenced a
eeting in Jesus' name. We were joined
n the work here by Bro. F. Jones. Let
11 saints pray God to raise up a people
t this place for his own glory.
At the close of this meeting we go to
orehead, Ky., where there are some diffi-ulties
to be adjusted. Then I am compelled
a return to my home and do some repair-g
to my house in order to make it coin-ortable
for my family. We solicit your
rayers that we accomplish this work with
he least possible delay, so that we be not
indered in the rescuing of souls for whom
esus died. Amen. Yours for the rescue
f the perishing, Geo. W. Howard.
Payne. Ohio.
" Better is little with the fear of the
Lord than great treasure and trouble there-with.
Better is a dinner of herbs where
love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there-with."
" In the fear of the Lord is strong con-fidence:
and his children shall have a place
of refuge. The fear of the Lord is a foun-tain
of life, to depart from the snares of
death."
TESTIMONIES.
Atlanta, Mich.
I praise God for salvation and for the
faith he has given me. Christ is my Savior
for both soul and body. The Lord has of
late burdened my heart for perishing souls
in this place. How much we need some
one to come here to preach the pure Word
of God! one whom the Lord sends. I real-ize
that we all have a work to do, for God
has no idlers in his vineyard. I pray God
to awaken every soul to his duty in behalf
of perishing souls. Pray for me that God
will give me wisdom in dealing with my
children; pray for their salvation. Yours
in the one body, Julia Cross.
Knox, N. D.
I feel like giving my testimony to the
honor of the name of the Lord. I am
praising God this morning for a salvation
that saves from sin. It is so sweet to be
saved in Jesus and so precious to be in the
evening light, and to preach the whole
truth of the evening time. Praise God for
the evening light! I praise God also for his
healing power; he has healed us so many
times. All glory to his name! I praise God
for victory in my soul, and that the Lord
permits me to preach the whole truth. I
have been preaching for the sects for some
time, but am now preaching for Jesus. I
• am all on the altar for Jesus. I know that
the Lord called me and has sent me and
I am going to preach the Word of eternal
truth at any cost. I ask all the saints to
pray for me that I may be faithful in the
gospel work. I need your prayers. Your
brother under the blood, E. D. Lander.
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER.
I desire the prayers of the saints every-where
that my daughter may be saved, and
also healed of a complication of diseases
that keeps her continually discouraged in
life. Pray that the Lord may strengthen
my eyes, which have become weak from
- sewing at night. M. J. Cook, Bessemer,
Ala.
Pray that I may be healed of indiges-tion
and stomach troubles, also that I may
become faithful and perfect with God.
Edward P. Whitstine, Thinkie, La.
Pray that I may be healed of asthma,
and also that I may become perfect in the
sight of God. Pray for the healing and
good health of my body. Your sister in
faith, Mrs. M. Whitstine, Bunkie, La.
CALLS FOR MEETING.
If any of God's ministers come through
here, stop and hold a meeting or two. The
whole truth has never been preached here.
Can two or three come and hold a meeting
here this fall? D. F. Frame, Canton, Lin-coln
Co., S. Dak.
Will some one of God's true ministers
come to this place and hold meetings ?
They can make their home at our place.
Bettie H. Frazier, Elwood, Utah.
MEETING NOTICES.
To save space it is necessary to have meeting
notices brief, omitting all that is unnecessary to
be repeated week after week. We will publish
them with full particulars for two or three suc-cessive
weeks immediately preceding their date, if
furnished us. Where reduced rates have been
granted by the railroads and special instructions
are necessary, space will be given on seventh page,
if desired. As a general statement that will apply
to ail meetings, will say that the saints at the
different places are accustomed to meet at the
trains those coming from a distance ( if notified
to do so), and as far as practicable, to provide
for the comfort of all. Provide yourselves with
bedding if possible. Provisions can always be
procured at reasonable rates. In ho case are
there gate fees or charges for admission. Invita-tion
is extended to all.
Quitman, Miss. Camp- meeting. Begin-ning
Oct. 13. Ministerial help is much
needed. Let all that can, come. Bring
bedding and prepare for yourself as much
as possible. W. E. McCree, Pachuta, Miss.
B. Buyprzg, r1A0' z. ds Co., 0. T. Oct. 13- 23. W
The general assembly meeting of the
northwest coast will be held in the new
meeting- house of the saints at 430 Haw-thorne
Ave., Portland, Ore., Oct. 13- 23.
All parties coming should be sure to se-
From the Claypool meeting I went in
( company with Bro. and Sister Fred Smith
- to the Payne 0., meeting. God bless
; the dear ones that so kindly provided.
There were a few souls saved,' some re-
( claimed, some healed. The meeting was
- not, in attendance, what it might have
lbeen, or as it should have been. May
the Lord help us all to be ready for the
awful judgments of God that are being
let loose upon this wicked world, and yet
they take no notice of what is coming. Oh,.
the Lord God help us to wake up, for he
will let loose his eternal farming- mill upon
this reformation, and it will blow out every-thing
that will be too light for the gospel.
0 ye that conform to the world, take down
your fancy hairpins and your unneces-sary
combs that you do not need to keep
your hair up, and every other thing that is
superfluous. Oh, how the devil is creeping
in little by little, and how he is sapping
the spiritual life out of their hearts, then
they become stupid and spiritually careless,
and have no desire for secret prayer ; and
when they do wake up, their minds are
so confused that they can not see their un-done
condition.
I came a long way through the sects, and
I have seen the fall of Babylon. Pride was
the first step. Then the devil introduced
every ungodly thing, such as secrecy and
every other abominable thing of the world,
until all the spiritual life was gone.
The Lord gave me a vision one day while
I was in secret prayer. It was a fanning.
mill. The pure wheat came through en-tirely
separate, perfectly pure and clean,
free from straw and chaff; but where the
straw and chaff went there was also an
immense heap of wheat. Oh, what an
awful picture of the sects ! The straw was
all separate from the chaff, which repre-sents
all the sects. And now comes the
chaff which was between the straw, and the
wheat that went out with the straw and
: the chaff, which represents all sect holi-ness,
which has nothing but an antichrist
' spirit. But now comes the wheat that
went through the mill and . is all separated
from the straw and chaff. What an im-mense
heap of wheat! When it was exam-ined
there was not a sound grain in it.
It was all too light for the gospel, and yet
separate from all the sects. May God give
us understanding.
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Burst, Fla. camp- meeting. Oct. 14- 23.
t ies meeting will ue held on the saints'
camp- ground, live miles southeast a . b't. Meade, in Polk Co., All coming will
get tickets to Ft. Meade. Notify us before-
0 A n d and you will be met with conveyance.
t he train from the north reaches there
about 9 A. M.; from the south about 7: 30
r. M. Let all in reach of this meeting at-tend.
A I I who can, bring bedding, and
come as self- sustaining as you. can, but let
no one stay away because they are pour, for
all will be cheerfully cared for. We are
looking for the best meeting and largest
attendance ever had on these grounds. Let
all the saints pray to this end. Bro. S. L.
speck is expected. For further informa-tion
address, W. 0. Williams, Hurst, Fla.
Fresno, Cal. Camp- meeting. Oct. 14- 23.
J. L. Chaffin.
Colman, Mick Assembly meeting. Be-ginning
Oct. 14, lasting over two Sundays.
Two miles west and one and one- half miles
south. Colman is on the P. M. R. R. Those
coming by rail, write me and set time to
meet you at station. David Mitchell.
Ava, Mo. Arbor meeting. Commenc-ing
Oct. 15. Four miles north east of
Ava on the Mansfield road. Come to
Mansfield, then take stage to Ava. Bros.
Henry, Seaton, and Mason are expected.
Address, M. Gardner, Ava, Mo.
Wolff, Ala. Oct. 20- 30. W. R. Young.
Tekonsha, Mich. Assembly meeting.
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Commencina. Oct. 20, at the chapel. All
are invited. Address C. H. Eldridge,
Burlington, Minh.
Muscatine, Ia. Assembly. Oct. 21- 31.
All lovers of the truth invited. Ministe-rial
help needed. Any true minister filled
with the Holy Ghost invited. J. M. Batch-elor.
Grand Junction, Mich. Assembly. Oct.
21- 30. We are expecting a glorious meet-ing.
Let all attend that can. Guy E.
Foote.
Bronson, Fla. Tabernacle meeting. Oct.
28, to last as long as the Lord leads. Tins
place is on the S. A. L. R. R., between
Cedar Keys and Gainsville, and is the
county seat of Levy county. Let all who
can, make it a point to attend this meeting.
All come as much self- sustaining as possi-ble,
as this is a new place and few to look
after the visitors, though provisions will
be made for all who can not care for them-selves.
Bro. S. Speck is expected at this
meeting. For further information address
W. 0. Williams, Hurst, Fla.
Franks, I. T. Assembly. Commencing
Nov. 1. May the Lord direct some of his
true ministers to this meeting. Would be
glad if Bro. L. L. Porter and wife and Bro.
Shipman could come; however, any one of
God's anointed will find a hearty welcome
and fellowship. We only mention the
above ministers because we know them.
All coming by rail will be met at
Ada, with team, if they will notify me.
Franks is fifteen miles south of Ada, and
in the Chickasaw Nation. Address all
communications to W. H. Howard, Franks,
I. T.
Penton, Ala. Nov. 3- 13. W. A. Slay, La-
Fayette, Ala., R. F. D. No. 2.
The southwestern Missouri assembly
meeting will be held in the saints' new
meeting- house, at Springfield, Mo., com-mencing
Nov. 3. A general invitation is
fgiievlden, mtoo. all. Address W. J. Henry, Spring-
The general assembly meeting of the
church of God in Washington will be held
at the Saints' Home, from Nov. 4 - 14. Let
all who can possibly come, do so. Come
furnished with bedding as far as possible.
There will be a more definite statement
later, in the Trumpet, giving particulars
more fully. A general invitation is given
to all the saints on the Coast, and also the
ministry. For further information watch
the Trumpet. Any one desiring to corre-spond
with the brethren here for
information, address A. B. Peterman, or
B. B. Nail, Colfax, Wash., R. D. No. 3.
Bliss, Mich. Assembly meeting. Nov.
cure certificates from R. R. agent, stating Kei1se8r-. 28. Ministerial help needed. Jerome
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A KEY.
author that many
who a
and opprei.- of the devil, will be enabled
to better understand the will of God con-cerning
themselves: and, by a closer walk
with Him, unloa by faith the rich treasure-house
of the Lord, and enjoy the blessings
of his love as never before.
AND HAPPY.
The book has ht sn read by thousands,
who, as a result of following its clear in-structions,
are to- day well and happy.
Part. I is devoted to the healing- of the
soul. Among the subjects are: The Dark-at's
of Sin, The Way Out, Conviction,
Consecration, Faith. Conversion, San- dill-cation,
Part II is devoted to the healing of the
body. Among the subjects are: The Doc-trine
of Healing, Can I Be Healed? The
Prayer of Faith.
Part III contains the testimonies of a
large number who have been healed of
serious diseases by the mighty power of
Christ. " The blind see, the lame walk"
etc,
vn by sin and sickness,
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BY H. RIGGLE.
That to be healed by God is the privi-lege
of all his children, the author clearly
proves by the Word of Truth. If we
have not the right to this, what blessing in
the atonement ran we claim? ' With his
stripes we are healed' dare not be sub-tracted
from the fundamental principles
of redemption."
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE
Divine healing is pointed out in God's cov-enant
with Israel, in prophecy. in the life
and ministry of Christ, in the death of
Christ. in the resurrection, in the Acts of
the apostles.
HELPFUL THOUGHTS
am given in regard to retaining healing,
importunity, obtaining the " children's
bread,'' etc.
LIVING WITNESSES
testify to being healed. b y divine power,
of paralysis, heart and nervous disease,
rheumatism, consumption. pneumonia, can-cer,
( hills and fever. female trouble, etc.,
etc.
Address NI Orders To
GOSPEL TRUMPET eo., MOUNDSVI LEE, W. VA.
HEALED OF TOOTHACHE.
I once more greet you in the precious
name of Jesus. To- day finds me saved and
trusting in Jesus. Truly, it pays to trust
our bodies, as well as our souls, in the
hands of the great physician, who doeth
all things well. •
Last January I had toothache, and Bros.
Roberts and Swinburn prayed the prayer
of faith, and I was healed instantly. My
tooth has never hurt me since, although
Satan tried hard to make me doubt by
afflicting the gum. I knew the Lord had
done the work. Afterwards another tooth
ached dreadfully. I am quite sure it was
ulcerated at the root. I asked God to heal
it, and, praise the Lord, I was healed, for
which I give God the glory.
Dear suffering ones, it pays to trust the
Lord in little things as well as something
more serious. Before I ever heard of di-vine
healing, the Lord healed two of my
teeth. I was living to all the light I had.
The doctor gave me medicine for it, but it
grew worse until it seemed unbearable.
I arose from bed and asked the Lord to
heal my teeth, and they were healed in-stantly.
That was ten years ago. I am so
glad I have learned to trust in Jesus for
all things. Dear afflicted ones, pray on,
trust your case fully in the hands of Jesus.
He will heal you. I was also healed of
kidney trouble, but not instantly. I im-portuned
again and again, but was healed
instantly when I prayed the prayer of
faith. I could not turn in bed without
much pain, and never slept for nearly three
nights ; but when the Lord heard me I got
up singing, " Victory."
I write this hoping it will encourage
some discouraged one to trust Jesus. I
never use the least remedy. I believe if we
trust the Lord we should honor him by
trusting him for all things. Your sister
trusting in Jesus, Emma DeWesse.
Rocky Ford, Colo.
■ •• ■ ■ • ■ •• 1 ■ al•••••
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Oct. 6, 1904.
DIVINE HEALING.
" For. numberless demoniacs throughout
the whole world, and in your city, many of
our Christian men, exorcising them in the
name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified
under Pontius Pilate, have healed, and do
heal, rendering helpless and driving the
possessing devils out of the men, though
they could not be cured by all the other ex-orcists,
and those who used incantations
and drugs." Apol. II. Chap. 6.
Irenmus, bishop of Lyons in France, born
and educated under Polycarp, and who
flourished about 176 A. D. and died in 190
or 202 A. D., says:
" If, however, they maintain that the
Lord, too, performed such works simply in
appearance, we shall refer them to the
prophetical writings and prove from these
both that all things were thus predicted
regarding him, and did take place undoubt-edly,
and that he is the only Son of God.
Wherefore, also, those who are in truth his
disciples, receiving grace from him do in
his name perform miracles so as to pro-mote
the welfare of other men, according
to the gift which each one has received
from him. For some do certainly and tru-ly
drive out devils, so that those who have
been cleansed from evil spirits frequently
both believe in Christ and join themselves
to the church. Others have foreknowledge
of things to come ; they see visions and ut-ter
prophetic expressions. Others still,
heal the sick by laying their hands upon
them, and they are made whole. Yea,
moreover, as I have said, the dead even
have been raised up, and remained among
us for many years. And what shall I more
say? It is not possible to name the number
of the gifts which the church ( scattered),
throughout the whole world, has received
from God, in the name of Jesus Christ who
was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and
which she exerts day by day for the benefit
of the Gentiles, neither practising decep-tion
upon any, nor taking any reward from
them ( on account of such miraculous inter-positions).
For as she has received freely
from God, freely also does she minister ( to
others).
" If, therefore, the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ even now confers benefits, and
cures thoroughly and effectively all who
anywhere believe on him, but not that of
Simon, or Menander, or Garpocrates, or of
any other man whatever, it is manifest that
when he was made man, he held fellowship
with his own creation and did all things
through the power of God, according to the
will of the Father of all, as the prophets
had foretold." Adv. Hoer. Bk. II. Chap. 32.
Tertullian, a presbyter at Carthage ( A.
D. 160- 220), a learned and eloquent con-vert
from heathenism, says in his address
to Scapula, proconsul of Carthage:
" For the clerk of one of them who was
Liable to be thrown upon the ground by an
evil spirit was set free from his affliction;
as was also the relative of another, and the
little boy of a third. How many men of
rank ( to say nothing of common people)
have been delivered from devils, and healed
of diseases!" Adr. Scap. Ch. IV. A. D. 217.
Again, he says :
" Even Severus himself, the father of
A. ntonine, was graciously mindful of the
Christians ; for he sought out the Christian
Proculus, surnamed Torpacion, the steward
of Euhodias, and in gratitude for his once
having cured him by anointing, he kept
him in his palace till the day of his death."
Ibid.
Origen ( A. D, 185- 254) an able and
voluminous writer, commenting upon the
words, " the demonstration of the Spirit
and of power" ( 1 Cor. 2. 4), says:
" Of power because of the signs and won-ders
which we must believe to have been
performed, both on many other grounds,
and on this, that traces of them are still
preserved among those who regulate their
lives by the precepts of the gospel." Con-tra
Celsum, Bk. I., Chap. 2.
" And there are still preserved among
Christians traces of that Holy Spirit which
appeared in the form of a dove. They ex-pel
evil spirits, and perform many cures,
and foresee certain events according to the
will of the Logos." Ibid. Bk. I. Chap. 46.
" And the name of Jesus can still remove
distractions from the minds of men, and
expel demons, and also take away diseases."
Ibid. Bk. I. Chap. 67.
" And some give evidence of their hav-ing
received through this faith a marvelous
power by the cures which they perform, in-voking
no other name over those who need
their help, than that of the God of all
things and of Jesus ; along with a mention
of his history. For by these means we too
have seen many persons freed from griev-ous
calamities, and from distractions of
mind, and madness, and countless other ills
which could be cured neither by men nor
devils." Ibid. Bk. III. Chap. 24.
Dr. Christlieb says:
" With regard to the continuance of mira-cles
after the apostolic age, we have testi-monies,
not only from Tertullian and Ori-gen,
who tell us that many in their time
were convinced, against their will, of the
truths of Christianity by miraculous vi-sions,
but also, much later, from Theodorus
of Mopsuestia, who died in 428 A. D., a
man of wide reputation as- a preacher, pas-tor,
and author. He says : ' Many heathen
amongst us are being healed by Christians
from whatever sickness they have, so abun-dant
are miracles in our midst.' " Modern
Doubt. p. 321.
Such testimony might be multiplied, but
enough has been given to clearly prove the
falsity of the statement that the day of
miracles and healing closed with the death
of the apostles.
HEALED OF SORE EYES.
Dear Saints in Christ, I feel led by the
Spirit of the dear Lord to testify to divine
healing power. I had the sore eyes so bad
that I could not see my way. I called for
the elders and had prayer, and was healed
by the power of God. I ask an interest
in your prayers. Your saved sister,
Luveria Lewis.
Collinsville, Miss.
HEALED OF STAMMERING.
For years I had been a most inseterate
stammerer. The defect in my speach was
so obstinate that my case was given up as
hopeless by my friends. Some declared I
would stammer to my dying day, but
thank God, they were all wrong. I said,
" Dear Lord, my confidence is in thee; I
will place my case in thy hands." A body
of saints laid their hands on me and
prayed, when I felt the healing touch in
my tongue, and knew beyond a doubt, that
the Lord Jesus had healed me of stammer-ing.
Halleluiah! Jesus has power to-day
to heal. Oh, I praise him for a con-queror's
tread in my soul.
Eugene B. Willard.
Perne, Mass.
LET THE LORD MANAGE.
Eight years ago I was dreadfully af-flicted.
I was healed in answer to prayer.
The Lord has healed myself and family,
including five children, many times in an-swer
to prayer, which was always offered
in perfect faith.
About one year ago an old affliction re-turned.
I steadily rebuked it in Jesus'
name, but it seemed I could not get the vic-tory.
I was at last persuaded to use a
patent remedy. For a few days I seemed
to get better, but in my heart I was not
satisfied. I said, Lord, I do not want to
be healed at all unless you do the work.
I stopped using the medicine. It was then
it seemed the powers of hell were turned
loose on me. I could not do my work, and
my children were all too small to do it, and
help could not be hired at any price. There
were no saints within twenty miles of me.
We had hay harvest on hands and no one
to cook for the men. I was determined I
would not give up again. I just took it
to the Lord and gave up worrying. As
soon as I was willing to let the Lord man-age,
and not depend on myself, the work
was done. A neighbor sent me word one
of her girls could help me, another offered
to let one of her daughters come. The
Lord can make a way for us if we will
trust him. Will each one of God's saints
ask him, as they read this, that I may be
sanctified. Minnie Winkler.
Muscola, Kan.
76, 77. And since the day of Pentecost the
people have had • a knowledge of salvation
by the remission of sins, and also a knowl-eeddggee
of the destruction of the sin principle.
" Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanc-tify
the people with his own blood, suffered
without the gate." Heb. 13 : 12 " For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested)
that he might destroy the works of the
devil." 1 John 3 : S. " Knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with him, that
the body of sin might be destroyed, that
henceforth we should not serve sin." Rem
6: 6.
There is some difference in the knowl-edge
of present salvation and that of fu-ture.
" We know that we have passed from
death unto life because we love the breth-ren."
" If ye know that he is righteous,
ye know that every one that doeth right-eousness
is born of him." 1 John 2: 29.
This is present salvation, but does it not
imply that we shall be saved in the future
at all ? Here is the great misunderstand-ing.
Some claim that once saved, always
saved. We will notice a few passages
this class of people use to justify their po-sition.
The above scripture says that " every
one that doeth [ not did— present term]
righteousness is [ not was] born of God."
" Whosoever is [ not was] born of • God
Both not commit sin." 1 John 3: 9. " And
every man that hath [ not did have] this
hope in him purifieth [ not did purify]
himself, even as he is pure." 1 John 3: 3.
' . L. A. nd whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep [ not kept] his command-ments,
and do [ not did] those things that
are pleasing in his sight." 1 John 3: 22.
" Whosoever believeth in him [ not did be-lieve
in him] should not perish." John
3 16. " Whosoever drinketh [ not drank]
of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst.' John 4 : 14. " He that hear-eth
[ not has heard] my words, and believ-eth
on him that sent me [ not has be-lieved],
hath everlasting life." John 5:
24. " He that eateth [ not has eaten] of
this bread shall live forever." John 6: 58.
" My sheep hear [ nothaveheard] my voice,
and I know [ not knew] them, and they
follow [ not did follow] me." John 10:
27.
All the Scripture which they use to up-hold
their theory is in the present tense
and has reference to present salvation.
Present salvation is the only assurance of
salvation in the world to come. We can
be assured of this only as we abide in
Christ, walk in the light, keep his command-ments,
etc. Paul . says, " Let as many of
us as be perfect [ perfect salvation], be
thus minded" that we might attain unto
the perfection of the resurrection of the
dead, or the future salvation.
Man alone can separate himself from
this blessed attainment. But as his salva-tion
is hinged on his free moral agency,
he should be careful to work it out with
fear and trembling, taking heed lest he
fall ; and that he be not spewed out" ( Rev.
3. 16), and be " taken away from the true
vine" ( John 15: 2), or " blotted out" ( Ex.
32 : 33), " or separated." Isa. 59: 2. " I
will therefore put you in remembrance,
though ye once knew this, how that the
Lord, having saved the people out of the
land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them
that believed not." Jude 5.
EASY OF ENTREATY.
SOME POSTAPOSTOIIC TESTIMONY.
BY O. P. TASTER.
IT is a common thing to hear people say
that the day of miracles and healing closed
with the death of the apostles. Some may
wilfully say so, who know better; but there
are others who honestly believe the state-ment
to be true and who have not had any
clear teaching to counteract their life- time
education in the school where such state-ments
are given out as truth. Therefore
they look with suspicion on the doctrine
of divine healing, and through not inform-ing
themselves, they class it with Christian
Science, mind healing, and other counter-feit
systems.
In this day of religious freedom and op-portunity
for research and examination,
every one blessed with intelligence should
examine carefully and prayerfully what he
has been taught to believe, and ask himself,
Why do I believe this?
Some people are Presbyterians for the
same reason that others are Methodists and
others Roman Catholics, simply because
their parents were ; and it is easier to re-main
as they find themselves than to start
out and clear what to them is new ground,
or diligently and with constant earnest
prayer to " seek out of the book of the Lord,
and read " ( Isa. 34: 16), like those Berean
Jews who searched the Scriptures daily to
see whether the things they heard were
so or not.
Even though it were not true that thou-sands
upon thousands of Christians in our
own time have proved and do continue to
prove that Jesus is still the great physi-cian,
there is abundant evidence from early
Christian history and writings that the
days of miracles and healings by direct di-vine
power through faith in Jesus' name
did not cease when the apostles died. They
well- nigh ceased, however, when, in the
course of time, true believers were almost
swept from the earth by the dragon ( pa-ganism)
and the beast ( Roman Catholi-cism).
Those were then the days of " lying
wonders" which wonders still deceive
those whose names are not written in the
Lamb's book of life.
" Witnesses who are above suspicion leave
no room for doubt that the miraculous pow-ers
of the apostolic age continued to oper-ate
at least into the third century." — Dr.
G. Uhlhorn ( Conflict of Christianity with
Heathenism. p. 169). The following are
but a few of the many testimonies that
might be given from the writings of what
are called the Christian Fathers— a group
of early writers living subsequent to the
death of the apostles. John, the last of
the Twelve, died a natural death about A.
D. 100.
Justin Martyr, a pious, converted philos-opher,
who lived from A. D. 105- 165, says :
PRESENT AND FUTURE SALVATION.
BY T. S. DENNIS.
PRESENT salvation is a knowledge of ac-tual
transgressions remitted, and may in-cl
ude - a knowledge of the destruction of
the sin principle also. The new birth is
life, and there can no life exist without a
knowledge of it by the one made alive; and
this is manifested by his knowing that his
sins are forgiven. It was declared of John
the Baptist that he should " go before the
face of the Lord to prepare his ways; to
give knowledge of salvation to his people
I by the remission of their sins." Luke 1:
BY W. M. POTTER.
" BEHOLD, how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity ! It is like the precious ointment
upon the head, that ran down upon the
beard, even Aaron's beard: that went
down to the skirts of his garments ; as
the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that
descended upon the mountains of Zion.
for there the Lord commanded the bless-ing,
even life forevermore." We all know
the blessed fruits of real Bible unity, but
how to maintain the same is just as im-portant
now as ever. We must have the
spirit of easy entreaty. " The lot causeth
contentions to cease, and parteth between
the mighty. A brother offended is hard-er
to be won than a strong city: and their
contentions are like the bars of a castle."
Prov. 18 : 19. How true! May the
Lord grant us that humility and entreaty
that craves the watch- care and admoni-tions
of the saints who have possessed the
kingdom.